satirical news sites like The Onion are being honored with a label to make people realize that it is a satire
Facebook is testing the label for a month /> Reuters
The label began to emerge in the satirical news site The Onion, a kind of American Public Enemy. Appears between square brackets and related items only, that list that appears below an article you read in the News Feed. Just says [Satire] and intends to warn users that this news is not true.
The test site was identified by Ars Technica. “We can only assume that this was implemented in response to users who believe Onion links of non-fictional stories,” writes the site, “but we’re not sure what took Facebook to go as far as this and exercise control editorial “
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The site contacted Facebook and the response was as follows:.” We are doing a small test shows that the label ‘[Satire]‘ ahead of links to satirical articles in the unit related articles in News Feed. This is because we received user feedback that people wanted a more clear way to distinguish these satirical articles from other units . “
The test is being done for about a month and is not exclusive to the site The Onion, said the social network, but was not provided a list of sites.
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