Facebook giving the hook to 'clickbait' headlines

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Facebook giving the hook to 'clickbait' headlines


San Francisco - Facebook on Thursday began updating its News Feed formula to cut down on "clickbait" headlines that promise much more than they deliver.

The tweak takes aim at headlines that intentionally leave out crucial information or mislead people, prompting them to click on links to stories to find out more, according to a blog post by Facebook researchers Kristin Hendrix and Alex Peysakhovich


Now if only the rest like news24, iol and enca would do this
 
You'll never believe what facebook has just done!

;)
 
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't like this one weird trick.
 
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