Facebook delivers more news in News Feed

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Facebook is boosting its efforts to put more news in its News Feed -- that is, real news from the news media, rather than status updates from friends.

The blog post from Facebook engineering manager Varun Kacholia and software engineer Minwen Ji stated:

"We've noticed that people enjoy seeing articles on Facebook, and so we're now paying closer attention to what makes for high quality content, and how often articles are clicked on from News Feed on mobile. What this means is that you may start to notice links to articles a little more often (particularly on mobile)."

And Facebook will tweak the way its displays articles in user News Feeds. High quality articles you or others read may show up a bit more prominently in your News Feed, and meme photos may show up a bit less prominently.

They added that Facebook will also "show people additional articles similar to ones they had just read."

But to avoid diminishing the updates from friends, Facebook will revise its "bumping", which means that after a user reads an article it may not show up again in the News Feed unless there are new comments from friends.