By John Glenday

Facebook has moved to weed out spam news articles and click-bait headlines from its News Feed service in a bid to provide more interesting and relevant content to its users.

The clampdown on publishers tempting click-through with salacious headlines and thin accompanying detail has been spurred by a desire to maintain confidence in the service after a number of spam posts spread virally as more and more people were lured into looking.

This serves to ‘drown out’ content from friends and genuine articles which people may wish to read.

Outlining how they intend to differentiate click-bait from genuine content research scientist Khalid El-Arini Read full story ›

Source: The Drum