You won't believe what Facebook is doing to clickbait headlines

Published August 6, 2016 This content is archived.

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An article in The Christian Science Monitor about a new Facebook algorithm that eradicates clickbait articles, judging and burying headlines that tantalize readers without revealing enough content, quotes Mark Bartholomew, professor of law, who argued that Facebook should be held to the same standard as any other news organization. “The more we think about Facebook as a business run by people with their own biases and motivations and not simply a neutral conduit for information, the better,” he said.

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