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Don’t Let an Algorithm Choose Your Information Diet. Take Back Control

You don’t have to rely on any company’s black box algorithm to find the content that matters to you.

If you find it’s increasingly hard to keep up with your favorite topics online, you’re not imagining things.

The New York Times, WSJ and Washington Post alone pump out 1,000 articles each day. Estimates of the overall output of articles and blog posts across the web vary, but they’re all enormous and heading upwards. And the so-called “newsletter boom” is adding even more clutter to already overflowing inboxes.

Technology is making vastly more information available. But that sheer abundance also makes locating the signal amid all that noise time-consuming, stressful, and difficult.

One popular solution to this problem is letting social media filter the cacophony for you. Slightly more than one-in-three of Americans get most of their news via Facebook. Half use the site regularly for news. Yet users’ satisfaction with the site is plummeting, and critics have called it everything from a brain rotting “slot machine” to “a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life.” (OK, that might be a bit harsh.)

In response, Facebook has been on a charm offensive, showing off new tools it claims help users better control what they see in their feeds. These changes may or may not make the social network a marginally better tool for staying on top of your favorite topics. But whatever tweaks the company makes, its end goal will always be selling your attention to advertisers, not keeping you up to date without information overload.

There is a better way to deal with information overload. You don’t have to rely on any company’s black box algorithm to filter out the relevant, high-quality content you need to stay informed, excel at your job, and pursue your passions. You can do it yourself with help from Feedly.

Whatever your goals, our premise is the same: you’re in control. You choose which topics and sources to follow — from your favorite media outlets and tech blogs to newsletters and Reddit communities — then we give you tools to prioritize certain subtopics and mute others within your feed. No more being bombarded with irrelevant ads, dodging conspiracy theories, digging through an overstuffed inbox, or wasting time checking a long list of favorite sites. Just a simple, streamlined way to follow whatever you want to follow, all in one place.

For power users, Feedly offers Feedly AI. Unlike social media algorithms, which train you to spend more time (and view more ads) on their sites by serving you outrage and clickbait, you train Feedly AI. With a few clicks Feedly AI learns to disregard noise and surface the insights you care about most, making locating the most valuable tidbits in your feed even easier.

It’s a simple, all-in-one-place feed that’s dedicated to you and your interests, not the ulterior motives of some corporation. Use social media to keep in touch with high school classmates, share baby pics, or organize your next get together. When it comes to feeding your mind, it’s time to take back control.

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