Facebook: no current plans to make 'catastrophic' news feed change worldwide
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#35Y1P)
Company's head of news feed says test is to see if users prefer only friends' posts in timeline, but journalists in affected countries warn of danger to democracy
Facebook is testing whether or not people prefer "personal and public content" being separated as part of its test in which it hid all non-paid posts, said the company's head of news feed, Adam Mosseri.
Speaking after a Guardian report revealed the radical change, forced on six small nations around the world, Mosseri said Facebook "currently" has no plans to roll the experiment out further. But he did not address whether or not the test would become general policy worldwide if the results show that Facebook users do prefer the news-free news feed.