So it’s perhaps no accident it’s chosen today to announce the international rollout of a News Feed tweak it made in the US, back in January, that’s designed to inject more local news into users’ feeds … Facebook’s response to this existential threat to its business model is an attempt to surface trusted local news — which it says helps people connect to their communities about the issues that are closest to home … By expanding the scope of what may be considered local to people, we’re including other cities that people may care about and connecting people to local publishers from those cities.