04-08-2016 20:34 via cio.com

Facebook battles to banish News Feed clickbait

Another day, another change to Facebook’s News Feed.
The social network’s crusade against clickbait, the highly technical term for garbage articles with misleading headlines, continues apace with an algorithmic tweak that downgrades articles with headlines like, “The Dog Barked At The Deliveryman And His Reaction Was Priceless.”
That means you’ll see fewer stories like that in your News Feed.
But hasn’t Facebok promised to banish clickbait before? Yes. In a 2
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