Alex Heath, Shoringe Fari and Tom Allison from Meta talk about the new Facebook feed. The feeds tab is going to allow you to see all of your content from friends that you're connected with in chronological order. It's almost like a throwback, you know, to kind of old school Facebook, which I think is very cool. We have more sophisticated AI now that can look at kind of the billions of pieces of content that are being created across Facebook.
We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today – an interview between Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and Meta’s Tom Alison, the head of Facebook. Alex is the co-host of the newest season of Vox Media’s podcast Land of the Giants. This season is about Facebook and Meta. The season finale comes out tomorrow.
Alex has been reporting for Land of the Giants for many months, and along the way he interviewed Tom. Facebook has a lot of challenges, but it seems like the biggest problem is TikTok: Facebook's problem is that it spent years – you spent years – building out a social graph that, it turns out, is less interesting than just being shown content that the company thinks you might like. Alison has been at Facebook for more than a decade and previously ran engineering for the News Feed, so he knows more than almost anyone about the history of feeds and where they are going.
Links:
Land of the Giants
Facebook is changing its algorithm to take on TikTok, leaked memo reveals
Facebook is revamping its home feed to feel more like TikTok
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23092319
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters. And our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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