Users now have “more control” over their news feeds on Facebook.

Facebook says it is rolling out a new feature to give people more control over what appears in their news feed. He now says he’s testing controls to “adjust people’s rating preferences” and personalize the feed.

This includes, for example, increasing the number of posts from friends and family and reducing the number of seats from groups and pages. It will also make existing controls “more accessible. Such as the priority and delay functions, most of which are in the settings submenu.

“We will begin testing in countries around the world for a small number of people and will gradually expand over the coming weeks,” said a Facebook statement. “It’s part of our ongoing responsibility to give people more control over their news feed. So they can see more of what they want and less of what they don’t want.

Facebook and its new parent company, Meta, are under political pressure to bypass their ranking system. The so-called “engagement-based ranking” was repeatedly criticized in a statement by Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen. Who said it prioritized divisive and extreme content.

Facebook disagrees, but some have accepted the opinion.

A group of US lawmakers has put forward the Filter Bubbles Transparency Act. Which aims to ensure that social networks allow users to use pages without algorithmic interference. This will bring Facebook closer to the original version. In the beginning, when students only used Facebook, it only showed every post from friends; the newest is the first.

For its part, Facebook believes that users don’t want that. A recent Washington Post report found that Facebook has conducted at least two experiments in recent years to examine what happens when algorithmic feeds are disabled.

According to the Post, one of these tests resulted in users logging into Facebook less frequently, spending less time reading content, and posting less on their own.