Facebook will show its users un pop-up to remember to read the articles before sharing them on the platform. At the moment, we are still in a test phase, the start of which was however announced with a post on the Twitter account of the social network of Mark Zuckerberg.
The goal, as he points out the tweet, is to encourage a more aware sharing of users as much as possible to minimize the circulation of fake news and disinformation.
Hoaxes and bogus content continue to spread away web e social, even on sensitive and impactful topics such as those related to health, making a lot of views.
Facebook’s commitment in this field has gone hand in hand crescendo. Against false news e disinformation, a problem with non-negligible effects a various levels with social media users too often careless, easily deceived and duped and superficially willing to share junk links, the platform has adopted various tools including blocking the advertising, informative campaign, dedicated pages, changes in the algorithm of the news feed and labels of fact-checking removing millions of fake posts. And now the pop-up initiative that too Twitter started experimenting since last year.
The results demonstrate the effectiveness of the medium, as its adoption has led more subscribers to open articles by reading them before retweeting. Facebook follows this example with a gradual integration approach involving a limited audience of Android users (6 percent) for now. Through the pop-up, which the system will make appear in front of those who are preparing to share a post by clicking on the appropriate button, an attempt is made to redirect the behavior with messages that invite you to check the contents well to avoid spreading false and unreliable ones.