{"id":99997,"date":"2018-04-17T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=99997"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:33:06","slug":"how-does-the-facebook-news-feed-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-does-the-facebook-news-feed-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the Facebook News Feed work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook News Feed has been all over the place the last few years. Updates from family and friends slowly disappeared to be replaced by news and features from publishers, which then turned into fake news that resulted in some incredibly strange geopolitical developments. World-altering elections aside, Facebook users haven&#8217;t been happy with the News Feed for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook knows that we want more updates from our personal connections and are working to put more and more of them in our feed. To help explain how Facebook ranks the content and posts that you see in your News Feed, Adam Mosseri who is head of Facebook\u2019s News Feed team published a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2018\/04\/inside-feed-news-feed-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a>. According to Mosseri, the Nerws Feed ranking system has four elements that it considers:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026the available <strong>inventory<\/strong> of stories; the <strong>signals<\/strong>, or data points that can inform ranking decisions; the <strong>predictions<\/strong> we make, including how likely we think you are to comment on a story, share with a friend, etc; and a <strong>relevancy score<\/strong> for each story.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;&lt;!-- Shortcode [program] does not exist --&gt;&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0]}\"><div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/8a6eafba-96d2-11e6-b334-00163ec9f5fa\/77332936\/facebook-logo.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Facebook<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Access Facebook<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--70\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"70\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"7\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\">7<\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/author\/facebook\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To explain how these four elements come together Mosseri put together a video to walk you through how the Facebook News Feed accomplishes its mission to <em>\u201cConnect people with the stories that matter to them most.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/10156625242821729\/\" data-width=\"550\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/10156625242821729\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/10156625242821729\/\">How Does News Feed Work?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/\">Facebook<\/a> on Friday, October 20, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Considering the social and political impact of Facebook, transparency on the News Feed is welcome. It is definitely worth your time to check out the video and bring yourself up to speed with the basic factors determining what you see in your Facebook News Feed. With elections coming up this year on both sides of the Atlantic, we can expect this issue to be a hot topic in the weeks and months ahead.<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;&lt;!-- Shortcode [related] does not exist --&gt;&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:[null,0],&quot;12&quot;:0}\"><div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey\">\r\n<p class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__title\">Secure Messaging Apps<\/p>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"Telegram\" href=\"https:\/\/telegram.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/d1045634-99eb-11e6-9b2f-00163ec9f5fa\/3374169218\/telegram-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Telegram<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    <a title=\"Line\" href=\"https:\/\/line.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article sc-related-articles-grey__article--last\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/7211d1fe-9b32-11e6-b1e2-00163ec9f5fa\/3439397470\/line-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Line<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__row\">\r\n    <a title=\"Signal\" href=\"https:\/\/signal-private-messenger.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/90b135bf-f83f-4a84-94ce-ab2bc1a7668b\/4161537738\/signal-private-messenger-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Signal<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    <a title=\"Confide\" href=\"https:\/\/confide.en.softonic.com\/android?ex=REG-60.2\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__article sc-related-articles-grey__article--last\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__image\">\r\n        <div style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_optimized,f_auto\/p\/904ee530-9b32-11e6-8f2e-00163ed833e7\/2873451637\/confide-logo.png)\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-related-articles-grey__text\">\r\n        <p>Confide<\/p>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook News Feed has been all over the place the last few years. Updates from family and friends slowly disappeared to be replaced by news and features from publishers, which then turned into fake news that resulted in some incredibly strange geopolitical developments. World-altering elections aside, Facebook users haven&#8217;t been happy with the News &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-does-the-facebook-news-feed-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How does the Facebook News Feed work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":100001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2353,1059,1035],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-99997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328077,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99997\/revisions\/328077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99997"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=99997"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=99997"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=99997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}