A viral message has hit social media claiming that the new algorithm of Facebook has restricted the number of people whose posts will appear on your Facebook News Feed.
The message says that the algorithm selects some 25 people who can see your post and only their posts will appear on your feeds.
It reads, ” Thanks for the tips to bypass FB. WORKS!! I have a whole new news feed. I’m seeing posts from people I haven’t seen in years.
Here’s how to bypass the system FB now has in place that limits posts on your news feed.
Their new algorithm chooses the same few people – about 25 – who will read your posts. Hold your finger down anywhere in this post, “copy” will pop. Click “copy”. Go your page, start a new post, click paste.
This will bypass the system.
Worth a try !”
Fact Check
This is not the first time this message has gone viral. In fact, similar messages have been doing rounds for months now.
In February 2018, The Washington Post did a similar story. The story quotes a Facebook spokesperson who advises people to not believe any such messages.
“Friends don’t let friends copy and paste memes, and this one simply is not true. We rank News Feed based on how relevant each post might be to you, and while we’ve made some updates that could increase the number of posts you see from your friends, your News Feed isn’t limited to 25 of them, ” he is quoted saying in the story.
The year has come to end but it seems that these threads of fake message.
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