[ April 19, 2024 ]
Geller Report readers have long suffered the suppression and oppression of social media speech police. The Geller Report feed has been blocked from your newsfeed. There is a work-around. Try this. Go to my Facebook page, here click the “Following” drop-down arrow, and check the “See First” option “In Your News Feed.”
Facebook’s Changing Your Newsfeed. Here’s How To Make Sure You Still See Posts By Your Favorite Sites.
By James Burnett, Daily Wire:
Story continues below advertisementFacebook recently announced that it will be making major changes to its newsfeed that will significantly impact what users see. The emphasis, CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained, will be on posts from users’ friends and family, as well as what Facebook calls “trusted sources.”
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/963168071736332289
Those “trusted sources,” however, are not necessarily going to be the same pages and news sites that users follow; rather, they are sources that Facebook designates as “trusted” through what it says will be rankings produced by “a diverse and representative” sample of Facebook users (see full post below). Which sources are “trusted sources” and which are not, is unclear. Sources not deemed “trusted” — even those you choose to follow — will get buried or de-emphasized in your newsfeed.
But there’s a way to make sure that Facebook does not prevent you from seeing posts by your favorite sites. Below are the instructions for how to update your Facebook settings so that your newsfeed prioritizes posts by sites you follow, like The Daily Wire, rather than letting the platform determine what you get to see.
1. On your Facebook homepage, click the drop-down arrow on the top right of the page and select “News Feed Preferences” (usually found near the bottom of the listed options).
2. Select “Prioritize who to see first” (usually the first option listed).
3. Change the view options to show “Pages only,” so it’s easier to find the pages for the sites you prefer to see in your newsfeed. Then simply select the pages you wish to see first in your newsfeed.
3. Change the view options to show “Pages only,” so it’s easier to find the pages for the sites you prefer to see in your newsfeed. Then simply select the pages you wish to see first in your newsfeed.
Another way to protect your newsfeed: Go to the Facebook page of the site you want to follow, click the “Following” drop-down arrow, and check the “See First” option “In Your News Feed.”
After you’ve protected your newsfeed to make sure you’re still seeing posts from your favorite sources, the other extremely important thing you can do to make sure those sources don’t get buried by Facebook is share posts with friends and family.
Here is an excerpt of the message posted by Zuckerberg explaining the platform’s new emphasis on promoting “trusted” news sources in order to protect against “sensationalism, misinformation and polarization” (full post below):
There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today. Social media enables people to spread information faster than ever before, and if we don’t specifically tackle these problems, then we end up amplifying them. That’s why it’s important that News Feed promotes high quality news that helps build a sense of common ground.
The hard question we’ve struggled with is how to decide what news sources are broadly trusted in a world with so much division. We could try to make that decision ourselves, but that’s not something we’re comfortable with. We considered asking outside experts, which would take the decision out of our hands but would likely not solve the objectivity problem. Or we could ask you — the community — and have your feedback determine the ranking.
We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective.
Here’s how this will work. As part of our ongoing quality surveys, we will now ask people whether they’re familiar with a news source and, if so, whether they trust that source. The idea is that some news organizations are only trusted by their readers or watchers, and others are broadly trusted across society even by those who don’t follow them directly. (We eliminate from the sample those who aren’t familiar with a source, so the output is a ratio of those who trust the source to those who are familiar with it.)
This update will not change the amount of news you see on Facebook. It will only shift the balance of news you see towards sources that are determined to be trusted by the community.
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19 Comments
6 years ago
Who the hell would use Fakebook as a source of news?????!!!!!
6 years ago
Who cares? face book is a tool of islam, waste of time to look at it.
6 years ago
Like facebook , twitter, even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
6 years ago
I choose the news I want on any social media source, whats the problem?
6 years ago
Reply to
john
Some people are really DUMB. Even still social media has no right to change YOUR text or direct you to liberal slanted news.
6 years ago
Reply to
john
… b/c if I share news from a reliable and verified source, my post will be shadow banned, and in extreme cases I will be put in Fascist Book jail.
Since my Fascist Book profile is now on a Death Watch for the Last Offense, it is of little use in the long running effort to wake up the Pod People.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dan Knight
I like “Fascist Book”. I wonder if I could start up a page on FB with that title? How long would I last, I wonder?
6 years ago
Reply to
john
But how do you “choose” it in the first place? Facebook apparently now filters the news from different sources.
6 years ago
Where is JEFF SESSIONS on this?
Since WHEN does FB or anyone else have the right to CENSOR your news?
Holder or Lynch would have been ALL OVER THIS if it blocked LIBERAL slanted news.
6 years ago
Who to gives a sh*t about “Fakebook”? It is nothing more than a congregation of personality conflicts, showing people at their worst. Besides, I’ve met all the damn people I want to meet.
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6 years ago
If FB is so smart, why is it they can’t detect the scammers that we are constantly being harassed by?
6 years ago
Trouble is: Millions do use Fascist Book for their Indoctrination – and real victims are suffering real crimes as a consequence of the decisions of these brainwashed masses. And the victims do not have any comparable platform. …
6 years ago
I never get posts from you, Pam, so I’ve had to sign up to your site and receive notifications by email. Thank you for this and have done so already. Keep up the good work!
6 years ago
Google and Facebook are not promoting freedom…they are slowly and subtly eroding it.
6 years ago
News Media Facebook new paper the government all every one all put out what they believe or what they want you to be believe even the church , and then you chose unconsciously to take in what you like or programmed to accept.
