Facebook Discovers One Novel Method for Identifying Spam

Facebook will soon begin concealing posts from Web surfers if the latter send spam to website members' news feeds via lures for clicking articles that are mis-informative and sensational.

According to a Facebook research, some end-users comprising one small group regularly shared numerous public posts daily that actually spammed other end-users' feeds.

The social media asserts that end-users, who publish more than fifty times their posts daily, frequently share posts which it regards as spam alternatively fake news. Thus Facebook will now pick up the web-links which the said super-posters distribute among themselves, while curb their sharing across the site. Recode.net posted this on the Internet dated June 30, 2017.

The idea behind the above move is to not allow the web-links which end-users relentlessly post and share to get distributed to the extent done so far, no matter whether they are shared through any trustworthy web-page. While such end-users appear as being bots, Vice President Adam Mosseri looking after News Feed at Facebook, however, states that the company knows for sure they're real people.

Mosseri adds that Facebook is not really perusing the content within the described web-links. There's a strong correlation between such end-users and the fake or spam content emerging.

Facebook, over the last 6 months, has made this update as among several changes it has done in attempts for reducing fake news items within its News Feed. Facebook has given major priority to combating 'false news' from the time of the election, while generally it was felt that 'fake' news on the social site aided in affecting the results. The latest rule is set to be applied to web-links solely for single articles as well as domains, while photos, videos, pages, status updates or check-ins won't get affected.

Reportedly, Facebook will also provide one fresh Discover tab to access Messenger so end-users can more easily locate chatbots and brands while interact with them. The development should not really affect publishers, however, Mosseri states. Facebook is just regarding web-links, which individuals share after posting over fifty times daily, and not Pages which put up posts 50+ times.

» SPAMfighter News - 7/5/2017