BCSO: New Facebook AMBER alert system will be a big help
KRQE CBS Albuquerque - There are new efforts to try to track down missing kids faster. Now, Facebook is joining the effort. From here on out, when a child goes missing in your area, an AMBER alert will...
View ArticleFace to Face: Arianna Huffington and Paulo Coelho
CNBC - This year, CNBC teamed up with Facebook to bring some of the smartest minds at Davos into News Feed to answer your questions.
View ArticleIslamic State threatens to kill hostages unless paid $200M
AP - The Japanese hostages in the ISIS video are reported to be Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa. pic.twitter.com/tZMxH5uvzR â Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) January 20, 2015 CAIRO -- An online...
View ArticleISIS demands $200 million, threatens to kill Japanese hostages in new video
The Week - In a new video released Tuesday, militants from the Islamic State threaten to kill two Japanese hostages if they don't receive $200 million in ransom money within the next 72 hours. The...
View ArticleFacebook Is Cracking Down on Viral Hoaxes. No, Really, It's True.
Slate - Facebook has long been a hotbed of hoaxes. As more people have turned to the site for news and information, its News Feed has become a petri dish for viral misinformation about everything from...
View ArticleFacebook users now able to label fake stories as hoaxes
RedOrbit - Brian Galloway for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Facebook users are well aware of the overwhelming amount of information the website provides on its News Feed feature--especially from...
View ArticleFacebook tweaks News Feed to show fewer hoaxes
VentureBeat - Facebook users had been complaining about seeing too many hoaxes in their feeds. Now they will see less.
View ArticleFacebook wants to kill the bogus stories and scams clogging up your News Feed
The Verge - Tired of responding to Facebook status updates with a Snopes link? The social network feels your pain. Today, it's announced plans to cut down on the number of misleading, deceitful, and...
View ArticleFacebook Is Finally Going to Stop Showing You Garbage Hoaxes
Gizmodo - Your Facebook News Feed is, more often than not , full of fetid, steaming, click-projectile-vomiting garbage. And Facebook wants to change that! Its latest attempt at weaning out...
View ArticleFacebook Will Now Start Warning You When News Feed Posts Are Hoaxes
Lifehacker - Ever seen a false or misleading story shared on your Facebook news feed? well, now you can you can help make it easier for others to know it's a scam--and avoid spreading misinformation...
View ArticleFacebook wants to cut down the number of hoaxes in your News Feed
Android Central - Facebook is making yet another change in its News Feed today, designed to reduce the number of stories that could offer false information or be deliberate hoaxes. This new feature...
View ArticleWhat Facebook is about to do to your News Feed will SHOCK you!
Android Central - Facebook, in a decision that could change the course of humanity as we know it, today announced that it's going to "reduce click-baiting headlines." That is, it's going to give less...
View ArticleFacebook wants to cut down the number of hoaxes in your News Feed
Windows Central - Facebook is making yet another change in its News Feed today, designed to reduce the number of stories that could offer false information or be deliberate hoaxes. This new feature...
View ArticleFacebook Announces Fix to Weed out Fake News Stories
Mediaite - Facebook announced Tuesday a news feed fix that will, it hopes, weed out the lion's share of hoax news stories.
View ArticleFacebook cracks down on News Feed hoaxes
PC World - Maybe now your friends and family will stop spreading that classic fake story about Facebook charging membership fees.
View ArticleFacebook Tweaks Its News Feed To Filter Out Fake Stories
Fast Company - Did you hear the one about the live dinosaur found in Utah? After today, hopefully you won't.
View ArticleFacebook Banishes Hoaxes From The News Feed
TechCrunch - "I declare all my Facebook photos are copyrighted" "Free Southwest Flights", "Bigfoot spotted". This is the kind of crap gullible people share on Facebook, until enough friends point out...
View ArticleFacebook Tries to Block 'Hoaxes' From the News Feed
Wall Street Journal - Facebook added an option for users to report an item in their news feed as false, in an effort to weed out online hoaxes.
View ArticleFacebook tackling scams and hoax stories in News Feed, satire is safe
Digital Spy - Facebook says satire is safe as it culls scams and hoaxes in News Feeds.
View ArticleFacebook to limit content flagged as false in news feeds
PC World - Looking for proof of the existence of Santa Claus? A search on Facebook might not yield much. "Hoaxes" or misleading news articles, like a story revealing scientists' proof of the existence...
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