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Facebook is rolling out a new feature that'll show you strangers' posts

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Facebook's looking to expand your horizons well beyond your network through the search bar. IMAGE: LILI SAMS/MASHABLE BY  BRETT WILLIAMS MAY 06, 2017 Facebook  is dead set on breaking through our news biases and  popping our filter bubbles . Now, in a new attempt to expand our horizons, the company is taking a page out of Twitter's playbook by rolling out a new feature that'll show you posts from strangers.  SEE ALSO:  What Facebook must do to prepare its 3,000 new moderators for the trauma they'll face The new feature is called "Latest Conversations" and was  spotted  by  Tech Crunch . After searching a news topic, Facebook will now display public user generated posts from users outside your own personal network, along with a live ticker estimating the number of people engaging with the topic.