Facebook attempts to demystify its privacy settings, will test clearer prompts

One of the biggest points of confusion among Facebook users comes with privacy settings. It’s something that Facebook as a company takes seriously, engineers and managers told reporters Tuesday.

Every day, Facebook performs 80 trillion checks to ensure that users’ content is shown only to the audiences they intended. User input is also valued highly, as Facebook runs 4,000 surveys per day in 27 languages, gauging opinion on privacy settings and changes.

But soon, users on both desktop and mobile will see clearer calls to action and options to let them know just who they’re sharing content with.

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