Facebook News Feed Algorithm Tweak Aimed at Mass-Hiders

Software engineer Sami Tas and engineering manager Meihong Wang announced in a Newsroom post that in cases where users hide a high percentage of posts on their News Feeds, the algorithm will not factor in those hides as strongly as in the past, meaning that users will still see similar content.

They wrote:

Many people choose to hide stories they don’t like, but most people do this only occasionally.