Facebook wants to help you recognise satire


In a sidebar, Facebook provides an explanation of what a ‘Satire Page’ is and indicates that Pages can decide on their own to qualify as such. — AFP Relaxnews

Facebook is innovating. In its fight against misinformation, the social network wants to give its users more tools. The next change concerns Facebook pages.

From now on, the publications that appear in your News Feed will display a new tag to better contextualise the information. The idea is to prevent readers from taking a humorous story as real news.

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