Monday, August 18, 2014

Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles [Updated] | Ars Technica

Apparently not enough people watch The Colbert Report or read The Onion

"A Facebook representative issued the following statement to Ars Technica: "We are running a small test which shows the text '[Satire]' in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units." That test has been ongoing for over a month, and while we were told other satirical sites' links have received the same tags, we were not given a list of those sites. Our question about whether the tag would ever appear in other places on Facebook remained unanswered."
Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles [Updated] | Ars Technica

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