Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chan, when you last appeared before the committee on January 29, I asked you if Facebook controls my news feed. You replied, “No, sir,” and said I can only see content from pages I positively connect to.
There was a BuzzFeed article on February 21, 2021, which spoke of a Facebook feature called “in feed recommendations”, which is designed to insert posts into users' feeds from accounts they do not follow. It said Facebook users had complained they were seeing posts from conservative personalities such as Ben Shapiro in their news feed, even though they had never engaged with that type of content.
Does the “in feed recommendations” feature actually exist? If so, isn't that different from what you told me in January?