Following allegations that Facebook “censors” viewpoints its employees don’t like, Finland-based cyber security company F-Secure has suggested certain steps that people can take to “uncensor” the Facebook News Feed to give users some control over what they like to see.
According to the cyber security expert, Facebook users would never be able to control the ‘Trending’ section of the site, which the social networking giant insists is handled as objectively as possible through curators (and, apparently, a lot of help from Google).
“But you do have some control over your news feed, which is generated by Facebook’s algorithm Edgerank.”
F-Secure suggests that you can “get rid of the noise” by adding the people you want to get less news from to your “acquaintances” list on For the full article click here
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