Facebook announced an expanded rollout of its Related Articles test in News Feed, as well as updated machine learning to better sniff out hoax articles.
The social network began testing the use of Related Articles in News Feed in April, with those Related Articles popping up before users clicked on stories in News Feed.
Those Related Articles include content from third-party fact checkers as part of Facebook’s effort to stop the spreading of fake news.
Product manager for News Feed Sara Su updated her Newsroom post from April Thursday, saying that the Related Articles test is rolling out more broadly, and detailing the following tweaks to the test:
- Facebook will begin using updated machine learning to detect more potential hoaxes and share that content with third-party fact checkers.
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