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Facebook cracks down on like-baiting in posts

on Apr 11, 2014 | 0 comments

By Ishbel Macleod

Facebook has announced an update that will see link-baiting posts – those which explicitly ask for likes, shares or comments – appear less on the News Feeds of followers.

Repeated content and spammy links are also set to see a crackdown in the new changes to Facebook.

“The improvement we are making today better detects these stories and helps ensure that they are not shown more prominently in News Feed than more relevant stories from friends and other pages. This update will not impact pages that are genuinely trying to encourage discussion among their fans, and focuses initially on pages that frequently Read full story ›

Source: The Drum