Report: Facebook says it’s going to purge low-quality content and ‘meme photos’

Facebook has announced another round of changes to its News Feed algorithms, which it says will be adjusted to promote high-quality articles from your favorite publications, while weeding out “meme photo[s] hosted somewhere other than Facebook.”

For Facebook, which has been driving unprecedented referral traffic to publishers lately as a result of different News Feed tweaks, the changes are part of a continued effort to both to court media companies and reward content that performs well on mobile. At the same time, the social network also appears to be targeting lower quality image hosting sites, best known for distributing homemade image macros and memes.

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