Facebook Wants You to Tell Its Feed What You Want. Will It Listen?
Facebook is rolling out a place to describe the topics you want in Feed and Reels. It’s worth trying, but it isn’t a remote control for the entire app.
Facebook is giving people a way to tell its recommendations what they want to see. In words. Which seems like a reasonable thing to have asked before the app decided you were deeply interested in something because you watched one video to the end.
On October 13, 2026, Meta began rolling out a control called Your algorithm. It lets you add and manage topics you want to see in Facebook Feed and Reels. You can also give more specific written feedback through updated Interested and Not interested controls.
Say your recommendations have wandered into endless celebrity gossip, and you’d rather see home repair projects. Instead of reacting to posts one at a time and hoping Facebook takes the hint, you can try telling it that directly. Look for Your algorithm in a post’s three-dot menu. If the option isn’t there, the rollout may not have reached your account.
Meta says recommendations can change within the same session. That’s a company claim, not a promise that one sentence will make every unwanted video vanish. Your written preferences are another signal Facebook uses, not complete control over what appears in Feed or Reels. The name suggests you’ve been handed the steering wheel. You’ve been handed a suggestion box that may work faster.
There’s no separate AI subscription to buy, and the sources don’t identify a separate charge. Meta also hasn’t published a country-by-country rollout schedule, a supported-device list, or a date when everyone will have the option. Techlicious notes another gap: Meta’s announcement doesn’t say how long it keeps the topics you enter, whether that text is used to train AI models, or whether you can turn the feature off. Until that’s clearer, I wouldn’t type sensitive personal details into a box meant to tune video recommendations.
If you have the control and your Feed has gone off on a tangent, try it. Being able to state a preference beats trying to train Facebook by tapping Not interested fifty times. Just don’t mistake a better way to ask for a guarantee that Facebook will listen.
Information checked: October 18, 2026.
Sources
- Your Algorithm, Your Words: New Ways to Shape What You See on Facebook (2026-10-13)
- Facebook now lets you tell its algorithm what you want to see (2026-10-14)
Information checked: October 18, 2026.
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