Facebook Tests Related Articles Feature to Fight Filter Bubbles quoting : "TechCrunch"

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as mentioned in Facebook's new feature is essentially a revamped version of the company's Related Articles feature it debuted in 2013. Facebook did not say when it would finish testing the new Related Articles feature or from which publications it would show users news stories. Facebook Is Testing This New Feature to Fight 'Filter Bubbles'Facebook's strategy to keep its nearly 2 billion users more informed involves feeding them a lot of news stories. The original design of Related Articles was to show related news stories after a person reads a shared article, but the new version that Facebook's testing basically flips the process. The social networking giant said Tuesday that it's testing a new feature that will show people articles—presumably news stories from major media outlets—before they read articles shared by their Facebook friends.


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Facebook shows Related Articles and fact checkers before you open links
Now Facebook will also show Related Articles including third-party fact checkers before you read an article about a topic that many people are discussing. Facebook originally launched Related Articles in 2013 to surface more interesting links about a topic you just read. If an outside fact checker like Snopes had debunked the original post, that could appear in Related Articles too. There will be no ads surfaced in Related Articles. But after being criticized for allowing fake news to proliferate during the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook began working with third-party fact checkers to append warnings to disputed articles.


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