Facebook Tests "Satire" Tag To Avoid Confusion On News Feed

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 17, 2014 @10:30AM from the I-can't-tell-up-from-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an attempt to keep you from having to explain to your crazy relatives that despite what they read, Vice President Biden *didn't* get a grow light delivered to the White House under a fake name, Facebook is testing a "satire" tag on news feeds. A Facebook representative issued the following statement to Ars Technica: "We are running a small test which shows the text '[Satire]' in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units."

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Can't Fix Stupid by hduff · 2014-08-17 10:50 · Score: 3, Informative

They will think that satires are some kind of automobile wheel.

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