Facebook wants to free your News Feed from spam
PC World - The network is again tweaking its News Feed algorithm to show more of the stuff you want to see.
View ArticleFacebook wants to clean up spam in your News Feed
Engadget - "1 like = $1." "1 like = 1 Respect." "If you don't share this, you're literally the devil." We'll bet you've seen the above way too often on Facebook. Thankfully, the social network's now...
View ArticleYour Facebook News Feed Is About To Get A Lot Less Annoying
Huffington Post - Your News Feed is getting a major overhaul, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom blog Thursday. The company announced several improvements to "reduce stories that people...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
Computerworld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said.
View ArticleFacebook looks to cut the spam from your news feed
TechRadar - Facebook is on the hunt for spam and has introduced three measures to combat the irrelevant content that clogs many users' news feeds. The first targets what Facebook calls "like-baiting,"...
View ArticleFacebook squashes marketers' 'like'-bait in News Feed update
CNET - Say goodbye to spammy stories in your News Feed -- or at least the social network's definition of spammy stories. Marketers may beg to differ.
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
PC World - Changes to the site's filtering algorithm will de-emphasize posts that repeatedly ask for 'likes'(techhive.com)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
View ArticleFacebook is getting more aggressive with hiding News Feed spam
Digital Trends - Attempting to squash Facebook's problem of user-generated spam, the social network has rolled out new guidelines that will tweak the News Feed algorithm in order to feature more high...
View ArticleFacebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting...
Gizmodo - Facebook's cleaning up your News Feed a little, ripping out Like-baiting posts, repeated content, and spammy links.Read more...
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Business Insider - Good morning! Happy Friday! Only two more days left in the work week. Here's the news you need: Amazon acquired digital Comic book company ComiXology. ComicXology is sort of like a...
View ArticleFacebook is trying to make its News Feed less spammy
InfoWorld - Posts on Facebook that repeatedly urge users to like, share or comment on them are being targeted in a new effort to reduce News Feed spam, Facebook said Thursday. Many of those posts are...
View ArticleRapid Reaction: Businesses unfriend Facebook
TechHive - Puzzled by Facebook's news feed algorithm some businesses are dropping their presence on the social network in frustration. Zach Miners of IDG News Service breaks it down.
View ArticleFacebook: Begging for Likes Is a No-No Now
TIME - The social network is rolling out new policies to help cut down on spam showing up in the News Feed, including one that lessens the visibility of posts by Pages that ask for Likes and Shares,...
View ArticleFacebook cleaning up spam in News Feed
KING NBC Seattle - Facebook is performing its version of spring cleaning.
View ArticleFacebook Wants To Kill Your News Feed's Spam
Fast Company - Heads up, digital marketers.Today Facebook pulled back the curtains a bit, allowing outsiders a glimpse into some of the changes it has made to its News Feed algorithm. The move, which...
View ArticleNow That Facebook Is Making Right-Rail Ads A Lot More Compelling, FBX Is...
Business Insider - Facebook just announced that it's desktop right-rail ads will soon be relevant once again. The social network is going to make the ads much bigger, but it will also surface fewer of...
View ArticleFacebook's latest government report reveals which countries censor its News Feed
The Verge - Facebook today released its second global government transparency report, covering the period between July and December of last year. Apart from the regular numbers pertaining to government...
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on âlink-baitingâ
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Facebookâs latest tweak to its ever-evolving news feed: a purge of âlink bait.â Link bait, the Menlo Park social networking giant says, includes content that...
View ArticleFacebook Promises Less Junk in Your News Feed
NBC News - In todayâs world, âgoing viralâ is actually a good thing, and it usually involves people sharing stuff on Facebook.
View ArticleStudy: Facebook Continues to Make People Sad
New York Magazine - Recent studies in the field of Facebook science have revealed that the site diminishes our quality of life. Constantly staring at the lives of others via news feed, in fact, has...
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