For those of you who have liked the hilarious satirical news source The Onion on Facebook, you will have also accidentally mistaken it for real news a couple of times. Now Facebook has stepped in, and is testing out a feature that marks fake news stories with a "satire" tag in its news feed.
For those of you who have liked the hilarious satirical news source The Onion on Facebook, you will have also accidentally mistaken it for real news a couple of times. Now Facebook has stepped in, and is testing out a feature that marks fake news stories with a “satire” tag in its news feed, it has been confirmed to Mashable.
The tests have reportedly been going on for a month, and a variety of satirical sites are included in the program. An image captured by Ars Technica shows articles in the “related stories” field on Facebook’s news feed marked with a small, bracketed Satire tag.
The tags will be useful for sites that aren’t as well-known as The Onion. For example, the satirical-news blog The Daily Currant posted a piece on former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joining Qatar-based Al Jazeer as a commentator. Hilariously, a Washington Post journalist read it as real news, and the newspaper had to post a correction on its website.
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