{"id":27470,"date":"2021-02-10T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2025-05-28T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:13:43","slug":"reducing-political-content-in-news-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/02\/reducing-political-content-in-news-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Content in Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Stepanov, Product Management Director and Aastha Gupta, Product Management Director<\/p>\n<p><em><b>Update on May 28, 2025 at 9:00AM PT<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve updated our Help Center to better explain the Political Content control <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1932710690579979\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">setting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Facebook. This setting allows people to see less political content if they choose by turning off the default option. For more on our approach to political content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, please see our January <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2025\/01\/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announcement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or visit the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.meta.com\/features\/approach-to-political-content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transparency Center<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Update on January 7, 2025 at 4:10AM PT<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re continually testing how we deliver personalized experiences and refining our approach based on feedback. Read our announcement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2025\/01\/meta-more-speech-fewer-mistakes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about how we\u2019re updating our approach to political content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Update on September 4, 2024 at 9:00AM PT<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have begun rolling out a Political Content setting on Facebook in Content Preferences. <\/span><b><i>(Updated on April 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM PT to clarify that this setting is now found in Content Preferences instead of Manage Defaults.) <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Changing from the default setting may increase the amount of political content people see from accounts they follow, as well as increase political content recommendations from accounts they don\u2019t already follow. This can be adjusted at any time in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/help\/1932710690579979\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook Help Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For more on our approach to political content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/transparency.meta.com\/features\/approach-to-political-content\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transparency Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41651\" src=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?resize=960%2C836\" alt=\"two phone screens showing the Manage Defaults page on Facebook\" width=\"960\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=7680 7680w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=1240 1240w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=689 689w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/01_Reducing-Political-Content-in-News-Feed_PoliticsControl.png?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Update on April 20, 2023 at 12:47PM PT<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an effort to deliver a more personalized experience for people, we continue to test and refine our approach to political content on Facebook. This includes continuing to move away from ranking based on engagement, and towards giving more weight to signals based on the results of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2019\/05\/more-personalized-experiences\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">user surveys<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that help our AI systems better understand people\u2019s preferences by learning what is informative, worth their time or meaningful to them. We are also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">looking at things like comments on posts to help determine whether a post is political in nature and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">taking steps so people don&#8217;t see several posts about politics in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">his does not mean people will see more political content on Facebook, but we believe these \u2014 and future \u2014 tests will help us continue to show people the types of content they want to see.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While less than 3% of what people see in their Feed is political content, our goal is to make sure people see what\u2019s most important to them. We do this by using direct and indirect feedback to customize each person\u2019s experience so they see more of what they find valuable and less of what they don\u2019t. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We will keep sharing our progress as this work<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> evolves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update on July 19, 2022 at 8:30AM PT:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our tests have concluded and demonstrated that placing less emphasis on shares and comments for political content is an effective way to reduce the amount of political content people experience in their Feed. We have now implemented these changes globally.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Update on May 24, 2022 at 8:00AM PT:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of these tests to address feedback from people wanting to see less political content in their Feed, we put less weight on comments and shares when ranking political content. When surveyed, people who experienced these changes said they saw less of the content they did not find valuable. Based on those results, we\u2019re further expanding tests globally. We\u2019ll continue to share updates as we assess and refine these tests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Update on December 9, 2021 at 9:00AM PT:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We are expanding our political ranking tests to Facebook Watch content. We will share more about the impact of these tests as they progress.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Update on October 13, 2021 at 12:00PM PT:<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are expanding the political content ranking tests to more countries around the world. As we get more insights from these tests, we\u2019ll share updates on what we\u2019re learning and will continue to make changes accordingly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Update on August 31, 2021 at 8:00AM PT:\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve seen positive results from our tests to address the feedback we\u2019ve received from people about wanting to see less political content in their News Feed. As a result, we plan to expand these tests to Costa Rica, Sweden, Spain and Ireland.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve also learned that some engagement signals can better indicate what posts people find more valuable than others. Based on that feedback, we&#8217;re gradually expanding some tests to put less emphasis on signals such as how likely someone is to comment on or share political content. At the same time, we\u2019re putting more emphasis on new signals such as how likely people are to provide us with negative feedback on posts about political topics and current events when we rank those types of posts in their News Feed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ve learned that these changes will affect public affairs content more broadly and that publishers may see an impact on their traffic. Knowing this, we are planning a gradual and methodical rollout for these tests, but remain encouraged, and expect to announce further expansions in the coming months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update on February 17, 2021 at 10:55AM PT:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The initial tests to reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed are now live in the US for a small percentage of users.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Originally published on February 10, 2021 at 5:00AM PT:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Mark Zuckerberg <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/s21.q4cdn.com\/399680738\/files\/doc_financials\/2020\/q4\/FB-Q4-2020-Conference-Call-Transcript.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mentioned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on our recent earnings call, one common piece of feedback we hear is that people don\u2019t want political content to take over their News Feed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next few months, we\u2019ll work to better understand peoples\u2019 varied preferences for political content and test a number of approaches based on those insights. As a first step, we\u2019ll temporarily reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the US in the coming weeks. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During these initial tests we\u2019ll explore a variety of ways to rank political content in people&#8217;s feeds using different signals, and then decide on the approaches we\u2019ll use going forward.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">COVID-19 information from authoritative health organizations like the CDC and WHO, as well as national and regional health agencies and services from affected countries, will be exempt from these tests. Content from official government agencies and services will also be exempt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To determine how effective these new approaches are, we\u2019ll survey<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> people about their experience during these tests. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s important to note that we\u2019re not removing political content from Facebook altogether. Our goal is to preserve the ability for people to find and interact with political content on Facebook, while respecting each person\u2019s appetite for it at the top of their News Feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on our analyses in the US, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2020\/11\/what-do-people-actually-see-on-facebook-in-the-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">political content only makes up about 3%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong> (this number was updated on November 4, 2022)<\/strong> of what people see on Facebook. And although each person\u2019s News Feed is different, we know even a small percentage of political content can impact someone\u2019s overall experience. We already offer controls to help you <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/371675846332829\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">manage what you see in News Feed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, such as tools like <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1634545223376778\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Favorites<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which lets you select people and pages you want to prioritize in your News Feed; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Snooze to temporarily hide posts from a person, page or group; and the ability to turn off <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2020\/06\/voting-information-center\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">political ads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But we\u2019re always trying to make News Feed better, and this means finding a new balance of the content people want to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we embark on this work, we\u2019ll share what we learn and the approaches that show the most promise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re working to understand people&#8217;s preferences for political content and find a better balance of content in News 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