Facebook: latest news feed tweak gives more priority to your friends

Fewer posts from pages or strangers that friends have interacted with: 'People are worried about missing important updates from the friends they care about'

Facebook is rolling out the latest change to its news feed algorithm, tipping its emphasis back towards status updates, photos, videos and links posted by friends on the social network.

Posts from Facebook pages and media organisations will still appear in the news feed, but reading between the lines of the company's blog post about the changes, they seem likely to receive less priority after the change.

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"Content posted directly by the friends you care about, such as photos, videos, status updates or links, will be higher up in News Feed so you are less likely to miss it. If you like to read news or interact with posts from pages you care about, you will still see that content in News Feed. This update tries to make the balance of content the right one for each individual person."

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