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Facebook wants to cut down the number of hoaxes in your News Feed

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='http://www.imore.com/facebook-wants-cut-down-number-hoaxes-your-news-feed' title="Facebook wants to cut down the number of hoaxes in your News Feed"><img src='http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/field/image/2014/10/facebook-iphone6-hero.jpg?itok=gNJ17Mo8' />[/url]</p> <p>Facebook (http://www.imore.com/facebook-iphone-ipad) is making yet another change in its News Feed today, designed to reduce the number of stories that could offer false information or be deliberate hoaxes. This new feature comes a few months after Facebook announced it would give less relevance to News Feed posts that have what it considers to be "click-bait" headlines (http://www.imore.com/what-facebook-about-do-your-news-feed-will-shock-you).</p> <!--break--> <p>The company described just how it will accomplish this task:</p>

<p>To reduce the number of these types of posts, News Feed will take into account when many people flag a post as false. News Feed will also take into account when many people choose to delete posts. This means a post with a link to an article that many people have reported as a hoax or chosen to delete will get reduced distribution in News Feed. This update will apply to posts including links, photos, videos and status updates.</p> <p>Posts that receive lots of reports will be annotated with a message warning people that many others on Facebook have reported it.</p>

<p>Facebook adds that this new feature should not affect news stories that are designed to be satirical or humorous, so posts from The Onion should be safe.</p> <ul><li>Free - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8&amp;at=10l3Vy&amp;ct=d_im" title="" rel="nofollow">Download now[/url]</li> </ul><p>Source: Facebook (http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/01/news-feed-fyi-showing-fewer-hoaxes/)</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-29480"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/4285d0b5/sc/4/mf.gif' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

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