News Feed FYI: Showing Fewer Hoaxes | Facebook Newsroom

Striving to improve the Facebook news feed signal-to-noise ratio

"The goal of News Feed is to catch up with your friends and find the things that matter to you. We’re always looking to people on Facebook to tell us how we can improve this experience. We’ve heard from people that they want to see fewer stories that are hoaxes, or misleading news. Today’s update to News Feed reduces the distribution of posts that people have reported as hoaxes and adds an annotation to posts that have received many of these types of reports to warn others on Facebook. We are not removing stories people report as false and we are not reviewing content and making a determination on its accuracy."

News Feed FYI: Showing Fewer Hoaxes  | Facebook Newsroom