Facebook Is Bringing More Context About Links in News Feed to More Places

Its features were extended to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland

The article context features Facebook began testing in News Feed last October and officially rolled out in the U.S. in April are being extended to more countries and updated further.

The context button will now be available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.

In addition, the age of the website or domain will be shared to give people more information about the source of the content, and the feature will now cover all links, not just articles.

When the social network began testing its context features in October 2017, users who were part of the test group began seeing “i” buttons atop the links for certain articles in their News, and clicking those buttons gave them access to additional context, including:

  • Wikipedia entries for the publishers of those articles.
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