WTF has happened to Facebook?

I've tried to update my settings so that I don't see their suggestions but nothing seems to have changed.
These have just started appearing over the last week or so.

You can download your entire FB. A google search will give you directions.

I do wonder what some of you are looking at in the first place, or your friends maybe. It is algorithm based (to my knowledge), and bar more AI than I would like to see, I don't see anything like what's being mentioned here.

Or bookmark the URL and just access by browser:

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr

I have a couple of accounts and don't see streams of alt-right/violent content. However I always access by browser (I deleted the app after one of the many invasive privacy changes some years back) and I manage privacy settings tightly which seems to help. I suspect completely ignoring memes also helps.

I'm not a heavy user - largely its for keeping up with friends, acquaintances and old colleagues who are only on FB rather than sending outbound messages to the masses.

You can’t fix it, you have to select it every time you go on. I can do this on my phone though.

It got enshittified and left to algorithms. I stopped using it 2 years ago when I found my feed was about 60-80% ads, unsuitable 'recommended' pages (it seemed to think I really like a lot of things I have a vague interest in and TV progs I had never watched) and random AI slop.

I think they're introducing ways to see your friends' feeds again but seeing as Mark Zuckerberg has capitulated to Trump and also declared women can be called 'objects' and my child can be called 'it' and 'mentally ill' on his platforms I will not be going back.

Which is a shame as FB was genuinely a positive and useful platform for me before they let it go to hell.

I never look at any of the reels (unless it's the ones at the top from people I know) and my feed is usually cats, road trips through Scotland, unaffordable Coldplay tickets and the odd actual post from a friend.

I use it mainly to keep in touch with friends who are scattered all over the place, many of them abroad. I haven't seen any horrible racist or far right stuff on Facebook at all but X is a different matter. I am probably going to delete that.

Haven't read all posts so might be repeating. FB Purity weeds out most of the rubbish because you can select what you want to hide. I use it to chat with an assortment of friends worldwide. No problems.

I keep getting posts of mostly dead animals with their smiling hunters. Today's one though was two smiling hunters next to a still alive coyote with it's foot in a trap.

suggested and sponsored yes BUT only with things im into, joined groups, like pages on

My feed is just full of WWE, cat, weed, booze memes, Aussie rules footy, weather, parenting and music

I don't get far right or disgusting stuff but keep getting things popping up that I've no interest in like BBC sites from all over the country and pages I've never interacted with.

I don't know if this is an issue anywhere else but I live in an area with high road accident rates. Every time there's an incident, posters will come on with "Look at the footage from the scene" and "I was an eyewitness to this tragedy" shit which apparently leads to spam sites. I've reported them but they apparently aren't breaking any rules.

The last straw was one commenting on the death notice of a woman on the undertaker's page. How awful for the family,

Ok let me see if I can fix it on that option. I use it on the phone.

How do you do that as I cannot change the settings to only see friend’s feed.

Like many of you, I don't experience any of these abhorrent posts at all.
Yes, I get a few ads and 'suggestions' but I just ignore them and, as someone said, do not linger over these things or the algorithm will think you are interested!

I use it as a kind of diary, storage for photos, for keeping up with friends (although not as many post now), but also for following bands that I like so that I am in the loop with any new gigs or material.
I am also in a group of fans for a particular band and it is SO good...a really close community where we share stuff, have a laugh and make arrangements to meet up at gigs etc
I see my book club groups, local info pages which are actually good for letting me know about traffic issues etc, and, I am even a member of the Dull Men's Club, which is actually very amusing and I have had decent conversations on it!
I work from home so do not have office colleagues, so we have a work group on which we can ask for help and advice when we need it throughout the day. I also have a business page that I use for posting/advertising.

To be honest, FB suits me well.
Instagram is not the same at all...it is all about the images on there and there is no real opportunity for proper conversations and meaningful interactions. I feel that it is much more about the 'likes'.

@thiswilloutme you’re correct, we are in control of our feeds but you have to understand how it all works, I read that many of the very inflammatory posts are done just to get engagement, not only from people who will “like” it but also the people who text with the angry emoji etc. or argue with people in the comments over it. Any attention is good for Facebook whether positive or negative so they feed you more of anything you’ve paused on or engaged with and don’t factor in whether you’ve liked or hated the content.

Yesterday FB showed me a post from the Russian foreign ministry! I hate the Russian government and follow many Ukrainian pages.

They changed their hate speech policy to try and get into the pocket of Trump and the “free speech” brigade. This is now the reality. AI then learns and generates this kind of content so you will see it more and more. Depressing.

My Facebook is nothing like that! It’s full off ads for mobility programmes, stuff against anti-Semitism, gorilla videos and funny baby videos.

You get what you pay attention too. Even if you are pausing whilst feeling disgusted, the algorithym doesn’t know you were feeling disgusted, just that you gave it some attention, so it feeds you more of the same.

It’s like a child, it feeds off any attention, whether good or bad.

There is no conspiracy here. You have unwittingly created the content you see.

Meta is sucking up to Trump and co. Because that is where the money is, and they do not care about the fallout on society.

Sounds like a lot of people are just viewing the generic newsfeed that comes up when you open Facebook. You need to click on feeds and then choose friends/groups/pages depending what you want to see. Sometimes I forget and think to myself what is all this rubbish, and then I remember to change to friends feed and it shows me all my friends posts!

I haven’t seen any of the vile ones mentioned.
But then I only use FB any more for a members-only craft group, and the odd post from a family member.

I don't get any of this. I get a few crappy ads but i don't get anything racist or anything

I don’t get any of that stuff despite committing the crime of being 55+. I’d suggest if you are getting stuff about Reform it’s because you are engaging with it. Even if you have so far managed to be under 55.

You can get that if you only use your friends feed. Some ads, but nothing nasty or ‘suggested’.

Honestly - people who are getting stuff they don't like? There's a reason. It's designed to keep you engaged - so there is no benefit to them to show you stuff you don't want to see.

You, or someone else who uses that devices, MUST have been engaging in similar stuff online for it to pop up in your FB feed.

I can pretty much predict what will appear in mine based on my browsing history. It is so easy to get the feed you want - all you have to do is actually engage with the content you want to engage with. Like or comment on a friends page, or in a group you want to be active in, and FB will show you more of that friend and that group.

You are not a helpless recipient of these things you hate @DoComeToMeKitty - you have invited them into your feed in some way. I've literally never seen anything like that in mine.

It's absolutely horrible. I don't get the racist or incel content, it's mostly just really inane, brain rotting stuff like videos of pranks, recipe hacks, cleaning tips, animals... stuff that adds nothing to your life and sucks away rhe hours.

Mark Zuckerberg is bereft of morals and has made it clear he's not interested in fact checking or basically anyone coming to harm from his toxic platform.