Facebook Wants to Surface More News

The Facebook news feed is great at showing you the latest viral phenomenon, but the company wants to get better at surfacing timely news content.

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Facebook’s news feed seems like the least static system in social networking — it can be difficult to figure out what’s in and what’s out. Memes are out and celebrities are in; then Upworthy is out and live-posting about a TV show is the new thing to bubble to the top. Now, Facebook is biasing the feed towards news.

“We’ve heard feedback that there are some instances where a post from a friend or a Page you are connected to is only interesting at a specific moment, for example when you are both watching the same sports game, or talking about the season premiere of a popular TV show,” Facebook staff wrote in a statement.

Facebook came under fire recently for burying the news about Ferguson.

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