Facebook battles to banish News Feed clickbait<article>
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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 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? 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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Facebook battles to banish News Feed clickbait
