Facebook News Feed Now Showing Fewer Hoaxes An update, today, to Facebooks News Feed reduces the distribution of posts that people have reported as hoaxes and adds an annotation to posts that have received many of these types of reports to warn others on Facebook. Hoaxes are a form of News Feed spam that includes scams (“Click here to win a lifetime supply of coffee”), or deliberately false or misleading news stories (“Man sees dinosaur on hike in Utah”). Facebook is not removing stories people report as false and not reviewing content and making a determination on its accuracy. This should cut down on the virality of hoaxes but unfortunately could also impact quality science information (such as pro-vaccine information impacted by the anti-vaxxer camp). Facebook also says, We’ve found from testing that people tend not to report satirical content intended to be humorous, or content that is clearly labeled as satire. This type of content should not be affected by this update. The vast majority of publishers on Facebook will not be impacted by this update. A small set of publishers who are frequently posting hoaxes and scams will see their distribution decrease. FB Announcement: newsroom.fb/news/2015/01/news-feed-fyi-showing-fewer-hoaxes/ #Facebook #SocialMedia #Marketing #FacebookNewsFeed
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:16:35 +0000
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