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Facebook: Fake News Labels Made People Want to Click Even More

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Facebook flagged potentially false articles as “disputed.” That just made people want to click.

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Facebook will no longer flag potentially false news articles with a “disputed” tag, the social media company announced Monday. The announcement comes in response to a study that found that the flags actually encouraged some users to click the links. “Putting a strong image, like a red flag, next to an article may actually entrench deeply held beliefs—the opposite effect to what we intended,” Facebook wrote in a Monday post.

Read it at Axios