Meta is quietly reshaping what you see and what they moderate

In enforcement, the company is shifting focus toward high-severity violations like illegal activity and drug content.

For first-time mistakes, users can now clear a strike by completing a short educational module, which led to more than two million strikes being removed in Q2.

At the same time, Meta reported millions of cases of child exploitation material to authorities, showing where enforcement is applied most aggressively.

In terms of what people actually see, the numbers are revealing.

Only 0.4 percent of all feed views came from the 20 most-viewed domains.

A huge 97.8 percent of content views contained no external links at all.

Just 2.2 percent of views came from posts that included links, and most of those were from pages people already follow.

The result is a feed that is more closed than ever. External news and links barely surface.

What dominates are posts from friends, groups, and Meta’s own recommendations.

The big question is whether this approach builds trust through smarter moderation, or whether it pushes users deeper into a closed ecosystem with less connection to the wider web.

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