(MENAFNEditorial) iCrowdNewswire - Aug 18, 2017
Facebook
In a bid to promote "authentic communication," Facebook will nowe clickbait stories that present static images as video along with images with fake playback buttons in them. While the former practice just ends up confusing users, the latter actually tricks people into clicking through to a website. Both techniques are frowned upon by the social network, which says it wants to "improve the integrity of information on Facebook."
Facebook has been working to halt the spread of hate speech and fake news for a while now. It shut down an internal forum forearlier today, recently started using AI tofake ads, beganto fake news shares, acquired a startup's technology tovideo piracy,modified link previews, anda set of educational guides to counter fake news. The company has had its missteps, of course, like when ita black activists account for posting threats that she herself had received.
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