Facebook and its new home page relegate friends and family to background

The reception of the social network will now be devoted to content chosen by an artificial intelligence depending on the alleged tastes of users.

Le Monde

If you still use Facebook to get news from your family and friends, you will have to change your habits. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta and owner of Facebook, specifies Meta in a press release .

A way of relegating linear navigation in the background within the content posted by chosen contributors – namely your loved ones. Because if it will now have to go and get them in a tab placed at the top (on Android) or at the bottom (on iOS) on the screen of your smartphone, it is to better devote the main page of the platform, that Who welcomes you with each connection, to “personalized” content, chosen not by you, but by a “classification system from” machine learning “”, that is to say by an artificial intelligence.

/Media reports.