Facebook Considering Feature Update To Prevent Spread Of Misinformation

Many of Facebook’s 1.44 billion users turn to the social network for their news, but there’s a little quirk with how it handles headlines. A feature has long existed on the social media platform that allows individuals to completely alter the text of an article’s headline and sub-headline when posting it onto their profile or News Feed. Reached for comment,

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Woman Petitions Facebook To Remove The ‘Feeling Fat’ Status Update Option

A group of activists have a message for Facebook: Fat is not a feeling. Facebook’s status update box allows users to select an emoticon associated with a certain feeling from a drop-down box. Alongside “happy,” “anxious” and “full,” users can select “fat.” Facebook screenshot, March 6 2015 In late February, Catherine Weingarten, a playwriting MFA candidate at Ohio University, wrote

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