Facebook: new strategy to stop the clickbait

Facebook wants to stop clickbait. After a to limit the spread of such articles, Facebook now wants to go a step further.

Last year, Facebook announced that it would try to curb the spread of clickbait posts, to the point of blocking publishers from using this tactic to trick social media members into gaining clicks. Today the said it will start targeting clickbait on an individual level, rather than analyzing a page's posts en masse.Clickbait

In particular, Facebook will begin to check if a title holds information or exaggerates.

"Οι άνθρωποι μας λένε ότι δεν τους αρέσουν ιστορίες που είναι παραπλανητικές, συγκλονιστικές ή spammy", αναφέρει ο τεχνικός του Facebook Arun Babu, και ο Jordan Zhang σε μια δημοσίευση.

"Αυτό περιλαμβάνει επικεφαλίδες clickbait που έχουν σχεδιαστεί για να προσελκύουν την προσοχή και να προσελκύουν επισκέπτες για να κάνουν κλικ σε έναν σύνδεσμο. Σε μια προσπάθεια να υποστηρίξουμε την κοινότητα, δουλεύουμε στο πως μπορούμε να καθορίσουμε ποιες ιστορίες θα μπορούσαν να έχουν τίτλους clickbait, ώστε να μπορούμε να τις εμφανίζουμε λιγότερο συχνά."

In addition, Facebook also intends to do more to combat this kind of articles in other languages, and not only in English.

According to company developers, Facebook will review titles trying to crawl clickbait. It will analyze everything separately, and if the title exaggerates the details of a story or hides information, the article will be limited.

The new decision is in line with of the company's policy, which apparently in recent months is trying to clean it up from clickbait articles and news.

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