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07-01-2017, 09:07 AM
Facebook is targeting jerks who spam your News Feed
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is taking new steps to fight spam.
The social network will **w weed out posts from spammers who fill their friends' feeds with "vast amounts" of links to "low quality content."*
SEE ALSO: This app will tell you which of your photos are actually good e**ugh to post (which is both harsh and helpful) (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/eyeem-selects-photo-chooser-phones/)
"We want to reduce the influence of these spammers and deprioritize the links they share more frequently than regular sharers," writes (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/news-feed-fyi-showing-more-informative-links-in-news-feed/) Facebook's VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri.*
In this case, Facebook is setting a pretty high bar for what it considers a "spammer." The update was designed to address the "tiny group" of users who share 50 or more public posts a day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/facebook-fights-news-feed-spam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apps And Software (http://mashable.com/category/apps-and-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and News Feed (http://mashable.com/category/news-feed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/G6-qeZKzfPw
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Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/) is taking new steps to fight spam.
The social network will **w weed out posts from spammers who fill their friends' feeds with "vast amounts" of links to "low quality content."*
SEE ALSO: This app will tell you which of your photos are actually good e**ugh to post (which is both harsh and helpful) (http://mashable.com/2017/06/22/eyeem-selects-photo-chooser-phones/)
"We want to reduce the influence of these spammers and deprioritize the links they share more frequently than regular sharers," writes (https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/06/news-feed-fyi-showing-more-informative-links-in-news-feed/) Facebook's VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri.*
In this case, Facebook is setting a pretty high bar for what it considers a "spammer." The update was designed to address the "tiny group" of users who share 50 or more public posts a day. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/facebook-fights-news-feed-spam/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Tech (http://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Social Media (http://mashable.com/social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Apps And Software (http://mashable.com/category/apps-and-software/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and News Feed (http://mashable.com/category/news-feed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/G6-qeZKzfPw