Facebook putting the news back in News Feed

Facebook introduced another change to its News Feed algorithm recently, as the site plans to place more relevant news stories into the feed. Facebook claims that readers want to see stories about relevant current events, so that’s what the social network will do. Referral traffic from Facebook to media sites has increased 170 percent over the last year, showing that Facebook users do still desire to get news in the News Feed.

Users are used to seeing prompts — when they click on a news story within Facebook — to read