Meta's Facebook, Instagram to offer new tools

Meta is complying with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by offering additional measures and new tools.

Meta is releasing 22 system cards for Facebook and Instagram that provide detailed insights into how its AI systems rank content for Feed, Reels, Stories, and other surfaces. The new tools for researchers include the Meta Content Library and API. The library includes publicly available content from Pages, Posts, Groups, and Events on Facebook and Instagram.

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In addition to that, European users will get the option to view and discover content on Reels, Stories, Search, and other things on Facebook and Instagram that are not ranked by Meta using any of its systems.

Adding to it, Facebook and Instagram users will have the option to view Stories and Reels only from people they are following and will be ranked in chronological order, from newest to oldest. To make things more transparent, users will be able to view Search results based only on the words they enter instead of algorithm-based recommendations.

Meta is making these changes to comply with the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which is a new piece of regulation related to content moderated by tech companies on their platforms.

The new tools will be available later this month.