Facebook buries all kind of content that subscribers have “opted into”.
It pushes group think.
It keeps forcing users to use “Top Stories” but permits them to temporarily set it to “recent” postings. The user is then given the reminder option to set it “back” to top stories.
If you are a “commercial” interest (anything that is a group, even if non-profit or even registered, band, artist, whatever), your posts are hidden from your followers (those who’ve even clicked the FOLLOW tab) to encourage the host to pay $$$ to “promote” a post (for example, if you have 200 subscribers, your post may be seen by only 11 people if you don’t cough up $5 or $10).
IF you can make your posts go viral (with a lot of likes, shares, and comments), then they will “trend” and appear on other peoples’ walls.
Hell, beyond all of that, you may be “friends” with 400 people, but you’ll only see the news feed items from about a dozen people that you have “engaged with” by messaging on FB, posting on their wall, etc.
FB has long been suppressing content from subscribers’ newsfeeds.
I have to agree, but also, agree that part of this is by user preference, to not be inundated. So picking choosing what is relevant is what this process should be doing. But, that Facebook can be engaged by a political party to specifically and selectively alter your feed in a way as to modify your behavior.. is kind of beyond the pale... if you would. (When a feature becomes a bug.)
I didn’t know it had gotten quite that bad