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Facebook's New Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Buries Bogus Headlines (techcrunch.com)
Facebook is going to make some changes to its newsfeed, again, it said on Thursday. The company is now having another go at sweeping clickbait news stories away from people's newsfeed. The move comes as the social networking giant struggles to entice many people from coming back to its service every few hours. Under the new changes to the feed algorithm, articles with headlines that "withhold or distort information" will be classified as distort. Such stories won't completely disappear, but as the company says, will appear less frequently in users' feeds. TechCrunch adds: Facebook manually classified tens of thousands of headlines with a clickbaitiness score to train the new algorithm. Now it can detect headlines like "When She Looked Under Her Couch And Saw THIS... I Was SHOCKED!"; "He Put Garlic In His Shoes And What Happens Next Is Hard To Believe"; or "The Dog Barked At The Deliveryman And His Reaction Was Priceless." The algorithm then punishes the entire Page that shared them or site they link to by making all their posts or referral links less visible. Facebook's VP of Product Management on News Feed Adam Moserri said "If you post 50 times a day and post one piece a clickbait, this shouldn't affect you. If you're a spammer and post clickbait all day this should affect you a lot."
To get rid of all those f*ckers. About time, too. Maybe they can apply it elsewhere (hint, hint)?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
I for one welcome our clickbait-free overlords. A title should be a complete thought.
That's lame ... I share clickbait headlines all the time because I think they're funny. The posts always include a comment from me explaining why I'm posting it. Why shouldn't I be allowed to do that? Why assume that the people who ask to be my Facebook friends don't want to see my posts?
Breakfast served all day!
"If you post 50 times a day and post one piece a clickbait, this shouldn't affect you. If you're a spammer and post clickbait all day this should affect you a lot."
So;
Number of fake accounts required = Number of clickbait posts required / day
Number of non-clickbait camouflage posts per clickbait post = 50
Camouflage posts will be generated by reposting random posts from elsewhere, maybe change a couple of words to fool any dupe checking.
Thanks for the tip!
No doubt they're going to use the same one /. uses.
BTW have you seen how (insert: trump/clinton) has gone to (insert: win/lose/scare/cull/love) voters into: (believing/caring/fleeing/sleeping) that this isn't all about the (money/karma/love/fear/orwellian dystopia/robot overlords/lizard conspiracy/pseudo science/religious nutters/flat earthers/ghosts!/immigrants/natives/handicapable).
How about they just show me what people post, in order people fucking post it!
You won't believe what happened next!
Considering it's pretty codable to create those headlines I have to wonder how long before someone comes up with a heuristic to write the headlines which get through the filter.
At which point FB will have to update to catch those which will cause a counter update and so on and so forth until no headline ever will get through, leaving us completely news free and ignorant!
Brilliant!
Almost every website you go to now, even sites like CNN, CBS, Forbes, etc., have clickbait ads. The ones that irritate me the most lately are "You won't believe what X looks like now, it's stunning!" where X is some sort of 60's or 70's TV show star. They're in their 50's-80's, I pretty much guarantee they aren't going to look "stunning". They're going to look like old ladies. Nothing wrong with that, it's just the ads seem to imply they somehow magically got better looking over the past 40 years. /end rant
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
This angry girlfriend read his text messages, you won't believe what happened next!
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1. "This presidential candidate deleted 30,000 emails, find out what top secret details they revealed."
2. "A wall to block illegal immigrants? This presidential candidate says it can be done at no cost to America!"
Have gnu, will travel.
There's a major TV network in my country which has all video titles generated to be click bait. The fucked up thing is that the videos themselves are fine, OK-ish news which are not a pain to watch, are relevant and pretty well done. They don't really need clickbait titles because the quality is above average. Why they do it though is beyond my comprehension.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Which links to a site with a 10 page article that takes 9 of those pages to explain the backstory and the 10th page is a screenshot of her facebook wall where she says she is dumping him.
So, the smartest bullshitters get through, raising the bar on bullshittery, and making it more of a cognitive challenge to recognise. Gotcha.
Any rule-based system turns into an arms race, which is why they collapse in favor of value-based systems.
This will ultimately be used to explain why pro-Israel or conservative posts get buried despite NOT having click-bait headlines.
Zuck is one self-loathing jew.
Cracks me up, every, single, time.
And every one of those pages tries to hijack my browser to another page.
Some clickbait writers have shorter careers than others.
Since I'm one of the last few carbon-based lifeforms in the entire world who doesn't use Facebook, I can ignore this whole mess. Yay for meeeeeeee!
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
"Facebook Changed One of it's Algorithms And You Won't Believe What Happened Next!"
"Facebook Reduced Its Clickbait Using This One Weird Trick!"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
And hopefully it will kill off all those "Thing: What we know" headlines.
You won't believe what facebook does to combat click-baiting! Number three is shocking!
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facebook should respect my request to view my newsfeed as I want to view it, and stop hiding behind their "algorithm" to show me stuff I don't want to see.
For the past couple weeks my feed has shown various "The Rock Arrested!!!!" and "Free The Rock!" nonsense. A quick search shows Snopes debunked this nonsense. It's a photograph of a scene from one of his movies where his character gets arrested.
FB's 'algorithm' could start with random clickbait bullshit sites like Outbrain, TMZ and Zergnet.
When I see, REGARDLESS of who posts it, "shocking! You won't believe what xxxxx just said" Or, When so and so did this, this is what happened...anyone should know it's click bait.
So that means anything by the mainstream media about Trump must be out.
As I read the article summary, I spotted the headline
"We checked out the best smart luggage and..."
Seems like something the FB alg would toss.
Editors, please call Zuck.
I can spot and avoid a click-bait article without Facebook's help. What I really want from Facebook is a way to block direct marketing posts from my friends without blocking the friend completely (e.g. Herbal Life, Mary Kay, Shake-ology, Stella & Dot, etc.).
How long until legitimate headlines on legitimate stories are found to "withhold or distort information" because they don't fit the political Narrative of Facebook?
This is not good thing. It is cover for pushing agendas and squelching stuff they don't like... "Oh, it was the algorithm, not our political bias".
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
If the algorithm works as described, you should be able to create several pages that promote your competitors using click-bait headlines and bury them organically speaking.
I suppose I could just "unsubscribe" from them, but two family members whom I do I want to see the occasional thing from and a number of other "friends" are hell bent on re-sharing that useless life advice type garbage on FB, every day its several new things from new places, and its impossible to block it that I can find.
The rest like to link news media stories with no comment as to why they are posting it or why it matters, if I wanted to read the media, I'd goto their website and read it.
Out of about 80 "connections" I have on FB, there are maybe about 5 people that actually post stuff about them selves or something related to what they have been up-to, once upon a time, thats all FB was - a way to effectively socialize, but it seems the easier it is to "socialize" with people the less it happens.
Sometimes I wonder what changes would occur in peoples social habits if the internet and cell phones were turned off. Growing up I vaguely remember a time when people would know most of their neighbors and be friends with a few of them, people would drop around to visit randomly often, there was always something to do or something going on. Now we all hide in our basements watching netflix or sharing some life changing advise on facebork.
This reality TV star decided to try something new. You'll be SHOCKED to find out what he did next!
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Is the most annoying one, especially since the actress never appears in the slideshow to actually demonstrate what she looks like now. Not to mention she is fat and ugly. Then there are all the one's that have a red circle around something in a photo that is completely out of context for the headline. Of course, we can't forget all the air disaster FUD that uses the photo of a plane breaking up mid-air from the TV show Lost.
For once I actually support something that FB is doing. I'm still zero steps closer to ever joining FB, but it would be nice if this kind of filtering could come to other sites. Maybe here?
Click bait is like the 2015 version of the blink tag.
-AlPhAbEt
they'd give me control over what I see from my friends. As in, everything, please, unless I say otherwise.
I don't need your clickbait algorithm.