Your Facebook News Feed is , more often than not , full of fetid , steaming , click - missile - vomiting garbage . And Facebook wants to change that ! Its latest attempt at wean out undesirables ? Calling out dumb , viral hoaxes .
start today , anytime a important routine of users pit a post as a fraudulence , Facebook will lend a minuscule annotation note that “ many people on Facebook have reported that this story contains delusive information . ” So now , using the same method acting with which you ’d antecedently score stories as spam , you ’ll find an option to droop it as a dirty , dirty Trygve Halvden Lie .
But Facebook is n’t just counting these ego - report fallacies ; it ’s also taking into account how many times a certain post is deleted ( in crippling shame ) . Of course , Facebook is n’t going to pull the mail from our corporate Feeds entirely . agree to today ’s announcement :
This means a post with a link to an clause that many hoi polloi have report as a hoax or prefer to delete will get reduced dispersion in News Feed . This update will apply to spot including tie , photos , videos and condition updates .
Interestingly enough , though , Facebook claims that it wo n’t be “ removing narration people report as false ” nor will it “ review content and make a determination on its truth . ” In other words , anyone with enough tech savvy will probably be capable to find a way to game the system of rules , since Facebook wo n’t actually be puddle its own value judgements .
The other potential little hiccup would fall with people just marking news stories that they do n’t agree with as prevarication . But hey , at least its trying ? [ Facebook ]
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