Facebook has begun adding labels to satire pages so that it can make extra sure that people aren’t confusing satire for, you know, real news. While internet-saavy folk generally know how to tell ‘real’ news apart from satire, the truth is that many Facebook users do not. It is too common of an occurrence to see someone share an article from The Onion or The Borowitz Report as if it were serious news....
Facebook quietly added link previews to Facebook comments today, according toTech WD. The link preview display has been a part of Facebook for quite some time, including a thumbnail image and short description with links posted in status updates. Until today, links posted in comments on those statuses remained mere links. Here’s an example you can check out on Facebook itself: The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art....
Facebook has updated its Comments Box plugin for third-party sites with two new sorting options, Reverse Chronological and Social Ranking, on top of its existing chronological ordering,Inside Facebook reports. The update has been rolled out and is available on the 300,000+ sites that use Facebook Comments. Moderators get a new button to play with as well. A “Boost Comment” button allows mods to promote a post to the top of the discussion, allowing site owners to emphasize and encourage participation in particularly high-quality threads....
In June last year, wereportedthat Facebook had finally made it possible for any admin on a company or brand’s Facebook page to delete the original ‘owner’ associated with that particular account. But this has caused some to question whether this is in fact a good idea, given that it opens up a Facebook Fan Page to being hijacked, with the original creator left out in the lurch. As we wrote at the time, there are many reasons why a company or brand may want to change the ‘owner’ of Facebook fan page, for example staff turnover means that any number of people may need to ‘own’ a page , or if the Page was created by a third-party consultant or creative agency, ownership will need to be passed back to the company at some point....
Facebook says that it now uses the same techniques as bot removal to combat human trolls and spammers. The company toldReutersthat this new approach is similar to what its security team uses to shut down networks of Russian troll farms. The social network is saying it’s handling notorious groups that engage in false mass reporting of posts or accounts to get them removed by moderators. It’s also targeting networks trying to cause ‘social harm,’ on and off platforms....
