{"id":117188,"date":"2015-01-21T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=117188"},"modified":"2015-01-21T07:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:44:20","slug":"tell-facebook-about-false-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117188-tell-facebook-about-false-posts.html","title":{"rendered":"Tell Facebook about false posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Menlo Park, California-based social media company said Tuesday that it has updated its service to reduce the number of hoaxes that appear in users&#8217; news feeds. These posts &#8211; which include scams or deliberately false or misleading news stories &#8211; can annoy users.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will look at how often users report an item as false &#8211; a new feature &#8211; and how often users delete the item.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook won&#8217;t remove the items. But it will reduce how often offending posts show up in news feeds. Posts will also appear with a message saying that many others on Facebook have reported it as false.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook says humorous and satirical content should not be affected.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Facebook news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117180-sa-facebook-hate-speech-case-to-be-heard-in-equality-court.html\">SA Facebook hate speech case to be heard in Equality Court<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/116622-illegal-migrants-plan-their-trips-on-facebook.html\">Illegal migrants plan their trips on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/115495-top-10-facebook-places-in-south-africa.html\">Top 10 Facebook places in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook said Tuesday that it had updated its service to reduce the number of hoaxes that appear in users&#8217; news feeds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":85409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161],"class_list":["post-117188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}