📚 Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm to Bury Articles with Clickbait Titles

Facebook announced yesterday new changes to its newsfeed algorithm that will now hide articles that feature clickbait titles in an effort to raise the quality of content shared on the social network. Clickbait is a term used to describe headlines that create buzz around an article or title with the sole purpose of making users click a link, access a Web page, show ads so the news agency can make revenue, but without delivering the content "baited" in the title. Clickbait articles usually involve words and expressions like "shocking," "you won't believe," "X did this, Y's reaction was priceless," and many other. Facebook started working on the anti-clickbait algorithm last year Unlike Twitter, Facebook is swamped with such articles, a problem which the company knew about for a few years, and that's why it started working on an algorithm to detect clickbait titles last year. Facebook's team announced today the launch of this algorithm, which will ... ...