{"id":77825,"date":"2015-01-21T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=77825"},"modified":"2015-01-21T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T06:13:00","slug":"facebook-cracks-down-on-hoax-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77825\/facebook-cracks-down-on-hoax-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook cracks down on hoax posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Menlo Park, California-based social media company said Tuesday that it has updated its service to reduce the number of hoaxes that appear in users&#8217; news feeds.<\/p>\n<p>These posts &#8211; which include scams or deliberately false or misleading news stories &#8211; can annoy users.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will look at how often users report an item as false &#8211; a new feature &#8211; and how often users delete the item.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook won&#8217;t remove the items. But it will reduce how often offending posts show up in news feeds. Posts will also appear with a message saying that many others on Facebook have reported it as false.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook says humorous and satirical content should not be affected.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook is hiring in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/77717\/facebook-is-hiring-in-sa\/\"><strong>Facebook is hiring in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook \u2018newspaper\u2019 puts media in a scary position\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/74290\/facebook-newspaper-puts-media-in-a-scary-position\/\"><strong>Facebook \u2018newspaper\u2019 puts media in a scary position<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook Messenger: half a billion users and counting\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/73014\/facebook-messenger-half-a-billion-users-and-counting\/\"><strong>Facebook Messenger: half a billion users and counting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Menlo Park, California-based social media company said Tuesday that it has updated its service to reduce the number of hoaxes that appear in users&#8217; news feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":43007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,45,9407],"class_list":["post-77825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-hoaxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77831,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77825\/revisions\/77831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}