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Facebook battles to banish News Feed clickbait

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Another day, another change to Facebook’s News Feed.</p><p>
The social network’s crusade against clickbait, the highly technical term for garbage articles with misleading headlines, continues apace with an algorithmic tweak (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/08/news-feed-fyi-further-reducing-clickbait-in-feed/) that downgrades articles with headlines like, “The Dog Barked At The Deliveryman And His Reaction Was Priceless.”</p><p>
That means you’ll see fewer stories like that in your News Feed.</p><p>
But hasn’t Facebok promised to banish clickbait before (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2597654/you-ll-never-believe-how-facebook-plans-to-fight-click-bait.html)? Yes. In a 2014 News Feed update, Facebook used two signals to tell if a link was clickbait: how much time you spent on the story outside of Facebook, and whether you like or share the story.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3104613/internet/facebook-battles-to-banish-news-feed-clickbait.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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