The 8 Biggest Hoaxes of the Decade

Sometime around the early 17th century, a Chinese writer named Zhang Yingyu published a book called The Book of Swindles, also known by a longer name: A New Book For Foiling Swindlers, Based on Worldly Experience: Strange Tales from the Rivers and Lakes. The text, thought to be the first Chinese collection of stories dedicated […]

Facebook tightens policies around self-harm and suicide

Timed with World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening up its policies around some challenging subjects, consisting of self-harm, suicide and eating condition material after speaking with a series of specialists on these subjects. It’s likewise working with a brand-new Safety Policy Manager to encourage on these locations moving forward. This individual will be particularly […]

Facebook Demotes Miracle Cures and Other Health Disinformation

It'&#x 27; s the type of clickbait that can eliminate you. And now, it'&#x 27; s going to be a little more difficult to discover on Facebook. In a shift suggested to lessen the spread of deceptive health-related material, Facebook revealed Tuesday that it had actually made an algorithm fine-tune to bench “deceptive or mind-blowing” […]

Facebook News Feed changes downrank misleading health info and dangerous cures

No, consuming bleach is not a wonder treatment for illness and other conditions however that’s the sort of fake health claim that’s drifting around the web nowadays, getting obstructed by websites like Amazon and YouTube. Now you can include Facebook to that list of websites acting well, type of! The social media today revealed it […]

Facebook is testing augmented reality ads in the News Feed

Facebook is offering marketers brand-new methods to flaunt their items, consisting of with increased truth. At its F8 designer conference previously this year, Facebook revealed that it was dealing with organisations to usage AR to flaunt items in Messenger . Now a comparable experience will begin appearing in the News Feed, with a choose group […]