Business Insider - Facebook has made yet another change to its News Feed in order to reduce the amount of "spam" in your news feed. As with previous changes, this one is intended to reduce the amount of useless nonsense you see on Facebook and increase the amount of genuinely interesting stuff you want from the people you follow. From now on, Facebook will discriminate against "like-baiting" posts that gather clicks by simply requesting a "like" as the obvious answer to a question everyone already agrees on. The company provided this screenshot of the kind of spam it is trying to get rid of: The company said: Today we are announcing a series of improvements to News Feed to reduce stories that people frequently tell us are spammy and that they donât want to see. Many of these stories are published by Pages that deliberately try and game News Feed to get more distribution than they normally would. ... âLike-baitingâ is when a post explicitly asks News Feed readers to like, comment or sha
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