Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate censorship. We already know that Google, Youtube, Twitter and Facebook shadow ban conservatives. One of the irritating consequences of Facebook's busybody policies is the disappearance of your friends from your Facebook Newsfeed. Here's how it works:
- On the Home Facebook page, newsfeed, Facebook sets the default to Top Stories.
- Even if you set the newsfeed to something else, every day or two, Facebook resets your newsfeed back to Top Stories.
- "Top Stories" is Facebook's edited newsfeed. Their algorithm edits out things they don't think you ought to see. It tends, in my case to shift posts I see in a distinctly leftward direction.
- If you want to continue to see your friends' posts, you have to keep changing the feed back to "Most Recent".
- Or you can do this:
This app loads on top of your browser to provide a dashboard for Facebook that allows you to adjust settings, block spam and ads and, my favorite bit - it can prevent Facebook from resetting your newsfeed to "Top Stories" and blocking your friends so that you can't see them on your feed. It puts the letters FBP at the top of the Facebook webpages. You just click on it and select the settings you want. It makes your Facebook time more like what you want instead of what they want.
There use to be a way to reset your newsfeed to "Most Recent", but in late 2020 they hid that button under several layers of menus. Then in late March 2021, they did away with the link to change back to "most recent." Now, without the FBP app, you simply cannot find a consistent way to switch your newsfeed back from the FB "Top Stories" censored feed and you'll miss all your conservative friends' very entertaining memes. And you will be effectively shadow-banned if you post conservative things.
Click the link above, download FBP and install it. Once you set the newsfeed you'll see your friends again. Facebook's going to hate that!
© 2020 by Tom King
