# Filter out opinion‑centric news from Discover/News feed in app

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/filter-out-opinion-centric-news-from-discover-news-feed-in-app/4081>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** search-api, search\
**Created:** [March 8, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/filter-out-opinion-centric-news-from-discover-news-feed-in-app/4081 "2026-03-08T09:55:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/filter-out-opinion-centric-news-from-discover-news-feed-in-app/4081/1 "2026-03-08T09:55:06Z")

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🚀 **Feature Request**  
Add a content filter for opinion‑centric items in the Discover/News feed in the **Perplexity app** , allowing users to reduce or hide stories whose main content is “X said Y about Z”.

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🔍 **Problem Statement**  
In the iOS app (Discover/News feed), a large proportion of items are about what a single person said or thinks (e.g. “Politician X commented on…”, “Elon Musk said that…”).

As a user who primarily seeks evidence‑based information (data, studies, reports, analyses), I’m not interested in consuming quotes and personal commentary — even if they come from Nobel laureates, and especially when they come from politicians or celebrities.

Currently, these opinion‑centric items take up a significant share of the feed, which reduces signal‑to‑noise for users who care more about facts than about who said what.

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💡 **Proposed Solution**

Add a **content‑type preference** or filter in Discover/News, for example:

- A toggle or slider like:
  - “Fewer single‑person opinions / More data‑driven content”

- Or explicit checkboxes:
  - Reduce stories whose main focus is “X said Y”
  - Prioritize reports, summaries, datasets, multi‑source analyses

**Intended behaviour (examples):**

- De‑prioritize or hide items where the headline and body are primarily about a single individual’s opinion, quote, or tweet.
- Prioritize items that aggregate multiple sources, show data or empirical findings, or summarize events rather than amplify one person’s statement.
- Optionally, allow per‑topic overrides (e.g. still show expert commentary in areas I follow, but reduce political soundbites).

This could be exposed in Settings → Discover / News preferences, or as part of a more granular “Content preferences” panel.

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📌 **API Impact**

From the outside it looks like this primarily concerns **search / retrieval / ranking filters** for the feed generation layer, rather than the chat completions API itself.

- **API component** : internal ranking / search filters used to build the Discover/News feed.
- **Model‑specific?** Potentially relevant to any model used for news ranking or classification (e.g. Sonar Deep Research when curating sources).
- **Parameters** : This could correspond to an internal boolean or categorical parameter, e.g.:
  - `content_style: "factual_only" | "mixed" | "opinion_friendly"`
  - or a numeric preference like `opinion_weight` in the ranking pipeline.

No changes are needed for external API users unless you want to expose similar controls on the public API later.

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🔄 **Alternatives Considered**

Workarounds I’ve tried / considered:

- Manually ignoring or scrolling past opinion‑centric items in the feed.
  - This may slightly adjust personalization over time, but does not reliably remove this type of content.

- Using direct chat queries instead of the feed, with prompts like “summarize the facts, ignore quotes and commentary”.
  - This works for ad‑hoc queries, but does not solve the problem of the **push / ambient** Discover/News experience, which is where I’d like better signal.

- Relying on topic preferences only.
  - Topic filters (e.g. tech, science) still surface many “X said Y” headlines within those domains.

These workarounds are partial and time‑consuming; they don’t give the user a clear, controllable way to say “I care about facts and multi‑source context, not isolated opinions”.

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📎 **Additional Context**

- Use case: I’m an academic / researcher‑type user who uses Perplexity to stay up to date via the Discover/News feed, but wants to maximize **fact‑rich, multi‑source content** and minimize “soundbite journalism” centered on single individuals.
- UX suggestion: even a simple first version — a single toggle like “Reduce opinion‑centric stories” — would already be very helpful. Over time, this could evolve into a more general content‑preference system (facts vs opinions, primary sources vs commentary, etc.).

Thank you for considering this request — I think it would make the Discover experience significantly more useful for users who prioritize evidence‑based information over individual commentary.