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Facebook updates News Feed in its ongoing battle against fake news and spam

on Jun 30, 2017 | 0 comments

By Sean Larkin

Facebook has rounded-off a milestone week with the announcement that it is to tweak its News Feed algorithm in an update geared towards relegating spammers and accounts sharing fake news.

Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s vice president, News Feed, today (June 30) published a blog post claiming the update would help help reduce low quality links, and underlined the social network’s commitment towards promoting content that accurately informs its 2 billion-plus account holders.

“As a result, we want to reduce the influence of these spammers and deprioritize the links they share more frequently than regular sharers,” reads the post.

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Source: The Drum