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Experiment Suggests News is Low in Facebook Feeds

How much news is really in Facebook’s “News” Feed differs from person to person, and influenced by any number of muddy variables.

The makeup of a person’s feed might depend on the device they’re using. Whether they like a lot of news organizations’ pages. Whether they ever click on this news article link or watch that news video. Whether they’re on wifi or using data, checking in the morning or the evening. Whether their Facebook friends shared and discussed the news. Whether those news outlets have fast-loading pages. Whether they’ve “snoozed” groups, friends, or pages (a feature Facebook is rolling out this week). What you count as “news.”

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