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Title: Facebook cracks down on News Feed hoaxes Post by: HCK on January 21, 2015, 09:00:17 am Facebook cracks down on News Feed hoaxes
<article> <section class="page"> <p> First it was spam (http://www.techhive.com/article/2142328/facebook-wants-to-free-your-news-feed-from-spam.html). Then it was click-bait. (http://www.techhive.com/article/2597654/you-ll-never-believe-how-facebook-plans-to-fight-click-bait.html) Now Facebook is tackling hoaxes that pop up in News Feed because your gullible friends won’t stop liking and sharing obviously fake stories.</p><p> Hoaxes will probably never really go away, because Facebook isn’t going to delete any posts. Instead, the network is using your feedback to determine when a story is a scam. Now when you click to hide a story and banish it from your feed, Facebook offers a new option: “It’s a false news story.” If enough people report the post as false or misleading, the network will halt the story from spreading like wildfire.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2872684/facebook-cracks-down-on-news-feed-hoaxes.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Facebook cracks down on News Feed hoaxes (http://www.macworld.com/article/2872684/facebook-cracks-down-on-news-feed-hoaxes.html#tk.rss_all) |