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News on Facebook is a real problem, because the news stories that get shared on Facebook are things that people get really upset about. Donald Trump got tons of press because he deliberately and repeatedly said the most outrageous things.

I've now individually hidden every major news source (BBC, CNN, etc...). Huge improvement to my Facebook experience. While I still get ads from companies, my Facebook feed has been entirely purged of Donald Trump and mass murders.

Every time someone shares something from some source, I block the source. It improves the experience indeed, but people never cease finding different sources.

When you hide a shared link, you can tell Facebook to hide all links from that domain, forever. It takes surprisingly few blanket bans from the big clickbaity domains before your feed gets back to showing mostly original content.

Check out the Facebook Purity add-on. It gives you the control to filter out just about anything if you use a web browser to access Facebook.

http://www.fbpurity.com