{"id":232043,"date":"2017-10-06T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=232043"},"modified":"2017-10-06T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:35:48","slug":"facebook-to-provide-more-context-about-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/232043-facebook-to-provide-more-context-about-articles.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to provide more context about articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/10\/news-feed-fyi-new-test-to-provide-context-about-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook has started<\/strong><\/a> to give users additional context about articles in News Feed.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature is designed to provide users with the tools they need to make an informed decision about content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor links to articles shared in News Feed, we are testing a button that people can tap to easily access additional information without needing to go elsewhere,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The contextual information is pulled from across Facebook and other sources, which include the publisher\u2019s Wikipedia entry.<\/p>\n<p>A button to follow the publisher\u2019s page, trending articles, related articles about the topic, and information about how the article is being shared is also available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that information is unavailable, we will let people know, which can also be helpful context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said the contextual information can help users evaluate articles and publishers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/231219-facebook-is-working-on-facial-recognition-for-account-security-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook working on facial recognition for account security<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has started to give users additional context about articles in News Feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-232043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232043"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232095,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232043\/revisions\/232095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}