Facebook wants to be your newspaper. You already read updates from your friends and family with your morning coffee, but only about half of you get actual news—we're talking world events here, people—from the social network. Facebook wants to change that.
Welcome to the new Facebook News Feed.
So your News Feed is going to look a little different soon. Facebook said Monday that it is going to differentiate news articles from random content, like meme photos from other sites. Articles or content Facebook deems "high quality" will get special treatment.
"We've noticed that people enjoy seeing articles on Facebook, and so we're now paying closer attention to what makes for high-quality content, and how often articles are clicked on from News Feed on mobile," the company said in a Monday blog post. "What this means is that you may start to notice links to articles a little more often (particularly on mobile)."
Facebook is reportedly working on a read-it-later feature for mobile, according to AllThingsD, but it's unclear if or when that feature will roll out, or how it will affect the news content you see in your News Feed.
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