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Does natural-language feedback give users full control of Facebook ranking?

No. Meta describes the request as an input to ranking alongside existing engagement signals. Users can express intent more directly, but the company controls how that input is interpreted and weighted.

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Meta’s New Feed Controls Make a Promise. The Ranking System Still Decides.

Facebook’s natural-language feed controls make preference editing easier, but the platform still translates each request into ranking signals.

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