The Social Network introduces a button to report scams and hoaxes.
There are too many false news within Facebook, buffaloes that risk mislead users who see them appear in your newsfeed .
So the social network in blue has decided to run for cover by introducing a new option among those available in the button that is used to report the post to the staff: News false .
In the definition includes the “deliberately false news” and “scams unmasked by a reliable source,” .
At the time the option is not available to all, but is being tested and only the 700,000 members of Facebook can use.
“Report stories that do not want to see the News Feed helps to do a better job to show the most relevant content in the future,” says a spokesperson for the social network in an interview The Republic.
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The study phase is needed to decide where the line should be drawn between news simply false and post satire, and figure out who might be the ‘reliable source’ referred.
Offer users the ability to understand with one shot of an eye if the news appearing in the news feed are real, hoaxes or humorous post is a concern which is Facebook focusing for some months: the goal is always to provide content more in line with the tastes of the user.
Already last August it was rumored introduction of the [Satire] that the system could automatically put in front of the titles of the content from sites openly satirical, like The American Onion, which often did fall into the trap users with their news written specifically to appear plausible but actually absolutely invented.
The actual arrival of options as the [Satire] or button to report the false information depend on the outcome of the test, which will last for a long time: it is important In fact, to find a balance that does not produce the opposite effect to that intended.
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