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A new app seeks to pull power away from Big Tech to control what news people see and put social media users back in the driver’s seat.
Feedme allows users to aggregate their social media accounts, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, into one app and set the algorithm (order and frequency) with which they see different types of posts.
“Feedme is a first-of-kind superfeed app,” Feedme chief marketing officer Erin Brownback told The Western Journal.
“What that means is it brings feeds together from places you have been following content for years,” Brownback said.
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“So that means all of the work you’ve done of curating the perfect group of people — public figures, brands — that you want to follow over the past years, that will automatically sync with Feedme and you will be able to decide if you want to see that content in that platform, just the way that you want to see it,” she said.
The Western Journal and other media outlets have documented how algorithm changes made by Facebook since the 2016 election have negatively impacted online news traffic, particularly to conservative sites such as Breitbart, The Daily Wire and TheBlaze.
Put simply, though a user has liked and followed various news sites, Facebook has restricted the content seen from those outlets.
Prior to Facebook’s highly publicized algorithm change in February 2018, The Western Journal ranked No. 4 in the most engaged news sites on Facebook, while Fox News held the No. 1 slot, according to Newswhip.
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After the algorithm change, NBC News took over the top spot and CNN leaped from No. 16 to No. 2. Fox News dropped to the third position, while The Western Journal fell back to No. 12.
In March 2018 — the first full month following the algorithm change — CNN was on top, followed by NBC. Fox News remained the only conservative…
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