For several months now, Facebook has been at war against fake news on its platform. Still today Too many Internet users share articles without even opening themmay contribute to the spread of misinformation.
Starting today, Facebook will announce that the social network will test a way to encourage more informed sharing of news articles. If you want to share a link to a news article you haven’t opened, we’ll display a pop-up encouraging you to open and read it before sharing it with others. “.
Read articles before sharing them
If you want to share an article that you haven’t opened yet, Facebook will warn you with a pop-up that you may have missed important key points that may not be reflected in the article title. Facebook’s goal is to encourage its users to reconsider sharing links if they are not aware of the full content of the article.because narrowing it down to its title can sometimes be misleading. Of course, it will always be possible to share an article without opening it, even if the social network does not encourage this practice.
Facebook isn’t the only social network to take such a measure to stop the spread of misinformation, as Twitter announced a similar feature in June 2020. A few months ago, Twitter shared the benefits of this measure. According to company datacould lead users to open articles 40% more often and could help slow the spread of misinformation. Facebook is currently fighting against anti-vaccination and fake news about Covid-19, and this new feature moves in that direction.
According to The Verge, a Facebook spokesperson said: This test will be applied to 6% of Android users worldwide. If this proves to be true, we expect this new functionality to be implemented more broadly.
Source : Facebook
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