Facebook will alert you to articles over 3 months old

You are looking at an article in and suddenly find out it was written a year ago? Facebook will henceforth warn you if you want to share an article older than 3 months.

It has happened to everyone. You look at the activity of a friend or relative on Facebook and you see them sharing a seemingly up-to-date piece of news with a nice and shaky headline, and when you open the link you discover that it was written three years ago and contains outdated information.

For these cases from today Facebook is launching a feature that will warn them , before sharing an article of more than 90 days. When you click on of the notification in an old article, you will see a notification. It's still not clear if it also works by simply copying and pasting a link. Of course, many times old news is still relevant, so Facebook will allow you to share the article if you want, provided you click on the warning.

Το Facebook αναφέρει σχετικά ότι "η επικαιρότητα ενός άρθρου είναι ένα σημαντικό κομμάτι που βοηθά τους ανθρώπους να αποφασίσουν τι να διαβάσουν, να εμπιστευτούν και να μοιραστούν και ότι ανησυχούν για τις παλιές ειδήσεις που παρερμηνεύουν τα τρέχοντα γεγονότα".

Σκεφτείτε όλους τους τίτλους που διαβάζετε και ενώ δεν κάνετε κλικ σε αυτούς, η αντίληψή σας για τα τρέχοντα συμβάντα, πιθανότατα επηρεάζεται από αυτά που βλέπετε να μοιράζονται οι άνθρωποι στις ροές τους. Πολλοί αναγνώστες δεν κάθονται να διαβάσουν ένα άρθρο γραμμή - γραμμή αλλά αρκούνται στον τίτλο, πόσο μάλλον να διαβάσουν την ημερομηνία.

The Facebook is considering other types of warning tags, such as providing additional content related to COVID-19 related articles, including the source history of the link and a link to the COVID-19 Information Center for more reliable health information.

Twitter recently implemented a feature that alerted users before sharing an unread article.

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