when articles posted to the social network are tongue-in-cheek instead
of hand-on-heart.
Evidently, users of the world's leading social network need a bit of
help when it comes to discerning truth from fiction in the form of
satire crafted to pushed boundaries of credulity.
Facebook told AFP they are testing a "satire" tag to go in front of
links to satirical articles that pop up in news feeds at the service.
"This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way
to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units,
" a Facebook spokesperson said.
Website litera llyunbelievable.org lists a cornucopia of seemingly
serious responses at Facebook to blatantly satirical stories,
including pieces from The Onion, which specializes in the fake news
genre.
No comments:
Post a Comment