
Facebook to use crowdsourcing, fact-checkers and labels to combat fake news
It’s been roughly five weeks since the US presidential election and the corresponding fake news scandal. After some initial denial of the...

Facebook Live will spin up 360-degree streaming to match YouTube
National Geographic will air the first 360-degree live stream on Facebook. YouTube added 360-degree live streaming back in April, and...

Facebook adds gaming inside Messenger, News Feed
There are a lot of things that people do outside of Facebook, but Facebook continues to incorporate more of those things into Facebook —...

The trouble with truth
Since the election, there’s been a lot of discussion about fake news and its ability to sway masses into potentially false...

Facebook may start flagging fake news posts, says Mark Zuckerberg
On Facebook, nobody knows if you’re a liar. But they might someday soon. Facebook is considering flagging to its users when a piece of...

Ads in Facebook Messenger are officially here
Today Facebook officially made it possible for marketers to turn their Messenger bots into ad bots. After testing sponsored messages...

Facebook now re-ranks News Feed stories in real time on the client side
Facebook’s efforts to make News Feed more accessible to all users regardless of the speed or reliability of their internet connections...

Facebook will rank Audience Network publishers’ ad slots, price them accordingly
If the Facebook News Feed is beachfront property for advertisers, its ad network of third-party publishers’ sites and apps, Audience...

How Facebook is dealing with ads overcrowding the News Feed, explained in 42 seconds
Some time next year, Facebook expects to have maxed out the ratio of ads to normal posts in people’s news feeds. That could mean Facebook...

Facebook now officially showcases vertical videos in mobile news feeds
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com A little over a year since announcing Facebook would support vertical videos, the social network is making...

How long has it been since Facebook changed its news feed algorithm?
Facebook tweaks its news feed algorithm pretty often. How often? In a six-week span between late June 2016 and mid-August 2016, Facebook...

Facebook’s changing the news feed again to make it more “informative”
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com It’s a Thursday, so Facebook is probably changing its news feed algorithm. Correct! This time, Facebook is...

Facebook organic reach is down 52% for publishers’ Pages this year
Publishers’ organic reach on Facebook continues to plummet, but some have found a parachute. This year, the number of people seeing the...

How Facebook is stepping up its whack-a-mole war against clickbait now
There’s a reason this article isn’t titled, “You’ll never guess how Facebook is fighting clickbait now.” Actually, two: 1) You probably...

Native videos posted by publishers’ Facebook Pages average 268% more shares than article links
Facebook execs already believe that people’s news feeds “will be probably all video” in five years. Maybe a lot sooner when it comes to...

Facebook makes Pages’ organic reach in News Feed even more dependent on shares
It’s a weekday, so there’s a good chance Facebook is recalibrating its all-important News Feed algorithm. And as is often the case that...

Facebook VP: 5 years from now, your News Feed will be “probably all video”
If you think you’re seeing more video in your Facebook News Video now than ever before, just wait. If one Facebook VP’s prediction comes...

Facebook starts counting time spent when ranking links in people’s feeds
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com The more time people spend on Facebook, the more money Facebook stands to make. So to make sure people are...

Study: Facebook users are sharing posts more frequently but liking and commenting less
A new study from analytics firm Rival IQ analyzed more than 9,000 brands on Facebook that included more than 8.1 million posts from 2015...
























