We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Facebook claims that users who post 50-plus times per day are very often sharing posts that the company considers to be spam or false news. So it’s going to identify the links that super-posters share and cut down on their distribution. Facebook isn’t actually looking at the content from these links — the correlation between these types of users and spammy/false content is strong enough that it doesn’t have to, according to Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s VP in charge of News Feed. —CS
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