Facebook's New Feeds Favor Friends and Family, More Like TikTok

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Like Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Facebook's latest update is performing a delicate balancing act of past and present.

On Thursday, the social network's parent company Meta said Facebook users will soon be able to open a new tool called "Feeds," offering a throwback to Facebook's pre-algorithmic origins with a chronological feed of recent photos, status updates, and the usual gripes about politics from friends and family. The site's main news feed, now called "Home," will undergo its own remake as a "discovery engine" driven by users' online habits and filled with TikTok-like short videos.

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