Facebook is getting better at weeding out News Feed spam

For a lot of Facebook users logging on and checking the News Feed has become less about catching up with friends than about being bombarded with low quality posts that make outlandish claims in the hopes poor suckers will click on them.Now Facebook is doing something about it: reducing the distribution of these posts and adding an annotation to posts that have been flagged by users as hoaxes.Facebook Software Engineer Erich Owens and Research Scientist Udi Weinsberg note in the site's announceme