Facebook's Newsfeed To Show Fewer "Hoaxes"

[engine]

I thought they'd already gotten on top of these issues, but it seems not. Although, i have seen quite a few of these, but never click 'em.

We’ve heard from people that they want to see fewer stories that are hoaxes, or misleading news. Today’s update to News Feed reduces the distribution of posts that people have reported as hoaxes and adds an annotation to posts that have received many of these types of reports to warn others on Facebook. We are not removing stories people report as false and we are not reviewing content and making a determination on its accuracy.Facebook's Newsfeed To Show Fewer "Hoaxes" [newsroom.fb.com]

Hoaxes are a form of News Feed spam that includes scams (“Click here to win a lifetime supply of coffee”), or deliberately false or misleading news stories (“Man sees dinosaur on hike in Utah”).

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. Posts that receive lots of reports will be annotated with a message warning people that many others on Facebook have reported it.

[bill]

I've never had much issue with hoaxes, but the increase of click-bait articles is quite noticeable on my feed. I've taken to reporting these and it cuts down on a lot of the fluff.

[engine]

Those click bait articles were supposed to be reducing, too, but, recently, i've noticed a lot more.

I never click on them!

[mcneely]

Oh?

Well I suppose I'll be seeing less and less from the likes of MSNBC and Fox News then ... right :)

[ChanandlerBong]

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[Planet13]

LOL