Facebook testing 'Satire' tag

You might have at least one Facebook friend who thinks that Morgan Freeman is really dead, or some satirical Onion headline is the truth. Facebook wants to stop the sharing of satire as fact, as the site is testing a Satire tag on posts from The Onion and other similar sites, according to Ars Technica and sister site AllFacebook.

The tag only appears on the Related Articles module that appears after a user clicks on a link within News Feed.

Facebook confirmed to Ars Technica that this is a test:

We are running a small test which shows the text ‘[Satire]’ in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed.

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