Facebook is adjusting its news feed and adding a tool that will let users pick the content that appears at the top of their news feeds, among other new features.

The “see-first” tool for news feeds comes as a minor victory for users who want to wrest control from algorithms and have greater influence over the information they get from social networking sites.

The tool, which Facebook discussed Thursday, lets people tell the social networking site what posts they want to see first. The posts can be from friends or from pages belonging to organizations and businesses. The posts will then show up in a person’s news feed, with a star in the top right corner to tell users that the person or organization is on their see-first list.

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