Facebook to deliver more news, fewer memes in News Feed

Facebook said that it will start showing members more links to news articles when they visit the social-networking site, especially when they do so from their smartphones.

The news-focused alternation marks yet another change to the formula that Facebook uses to pick the content that shows up in the News Feed. With the adjustment, the social network will attempt to surface more of what it calls "high quality content," or links to newsy articles about current events, sports, or interests. Should a person click on a link to an article, he or she may also find three related articles tacked on to the origin News Feed post. The change inserts more news into the finite space of News Feed, which means the links will take the space of other content such as meme photos, which will appear less often, the company said. Facebook ultimately believes the algorithmic adjustment will give people more of what they want to see in their News Feed.