Name: Facebook Is Making Major Changes to Its Newsfeed
Uploaded: 2018-01-12
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Description: For 2 billion users.

[ SOUND ] So the idea is to try and focus more on bringing people together by trying to put more emphasis on [ UNKNOWN ] more meaningful social interractions between people. And the way we do that in ranking is to value things like commenting or reading a long comment more. And finding things like, how long we think you might watch a video for a And so as a result, the ecosystem will shift. Could that lead to less daily active users? I think, anything is always possible. In this case we haven't seen that people come to Facebook less often. We do see that people spend a little bit less time on Facebook. But we think that if we are creating an experience that people are finding meaningful, then over the long run, they're gonna use the experience or the platform more. And that will be good both for people and the business. You guys have fallen into some uncomfortable editorial questions in the last year, whether it's the weaponization of the platform, or just hate speech and all of these real Philosophical, ethical questions that come with becoming a worldwide platform. So is this trying to take a step away from those uncomfortable editorial questions? I don't think there's any future in which we are not having difficult conversations about sticky issues. And so I don't think [ CROSSTALK ] Increasingly so, right? Yeah and that's because we, a lot of people use our platform every single day and it's an important part of the way people communicate and consume information. And so I think, along with that comes a lot of attention and scrutiny. And this ranking change isn't going to change that. [ SOUND ]