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Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis (engadget.com)
Facebook is taking further steps to decrease the reach and prevalence of clickbait headlines on its social network. Facebook says it will target clickbait on an individual post level and not just by analyzing the bulk posts of a page. It will also look at two distinct signals: whether a headline "withholds information or if it exaggerates information separately." From a report: This should "more precisely" downplay the number of misleading stories cluttering your timeline, the social network says. Moreover, it's promising a more exacting approach when it looks at individual headlines. Until now, Facebook examined clickbait titles in a holistic way: it looked for both the exaggerated language ("you have to see this!") and deliberate attempts to withhold info ("eat this every day").
From an ocean of piss
Thank you for starting the title with "Facebook", so I know I can skip the whole thing.
#DeleteFacebook
Ban all sties that require you to share the page before it lets you read the actual content.
I've never read this Face book, I can't even find reviews of it online. I guessing very few people have even seen it in the store.
Really? Not unlike the 15 nearly-consecutive posts telling me that all my friends are on Instagram, and I need to join too.
But, what do I have to see!!!?? What should I eat!?!???!!
You Wont Believe what Facebook is Doing to Stop Clickbait.
Facebook Stops Clickbait with this One Weird Trick (of actually reading posts).
Facebook Fights Clickbait Headlines -- Marketers Hate Them!
Facebook is specifically pushing clickbait in it's trending articles. Hypocrites, all of them!
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It's censorship in the same way that slashdot moderation is censorship. The intent may be rank good content higher than inferior content, but it can be abused by the rankers to further their personal agendas.
Here's hoping Facebook kills itself off in this purity spiral.
Clickbait headlines should be trivially easy to recognize. If Facebook is serious about filtering them, it should immediately be obvious to Facebook users when they turn the filters on.
Has anyone actually seen a change or is this just PR bullshit?
that is all
As for "holding back information", FakeBook is one of the best at keeping information off the Internet. Without an account they don't let you see much of anything. But then, I don't want my logical mind polluted with all the fake news stories my family keeps sending me from there. FakeBook would do well to stop blocking "BS Detector" browser plugins, and instead embrace it and make it mandatory.
That would be a good start wouldn't you think?
Corporatism != Free Market
With Facebook being a major supporter of net neutrality and not letting corporations pick winners and losers, rather creating laws that give the public that choice, doesn't this whole thing seem a bit hypocritical?
Just saying...
Dissenter
"There is no knowledge that is not power."
Now if only Slashdot would stop posting click-bait stories, it might actually improve my online experience.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Facebook is clickbait. By definition, since that's how they make money.
...laura
Sends Payola -> Allowed In Feed
lol. Your definition of censorship is so broad as to be meaningless. I bet you think clearing a shitty skidmark off a toilet is censorship. (By the way I'm white male, and dickheads like you are full of shit, crying oppression. Mind you, I'm not christian, because I'm not a gullible prick).
Oh, and this is about clickbait, dumbass.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
To reduce clickbait on Facebook.
The "Basic" version of the JollyGood Sans font, intended to resemble neat hand-lettering, is available without charge. Its download page requires "payment" with a share on Facebook or Twitter through the Pay with a Tweet platform before the download can proceed.
I ended up using Craig Rozynski's Comic Neue instead.