{"id":26385,"date":"2020-06-25T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T23:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26385"},"modified":"2020-06-26T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T23:01:20","slug":"thats-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26385","title":{"rendered":"THAT\u2019S OLD NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is launching a new feature to warn users if they\u2019re about to share a news article that is more than 90 days old, <span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ucnmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkchcqcm_jjvbvvjrjwbvnjbrmvnt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ucnmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkchcqcm_jjvbvvjrjwbvnjbrmvnt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1593289087916000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEBqVThDHUdnSlslUMdEcAPY3CTfw\">social media platform announced<\/a>\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0feature is aimed at helping users have \u201c<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0context they need to make informed decisions\u201d about what to share on\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0past several months, our internal research found that\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0timeliness of an article is an important piece of context that helps people decide what to read, trust and share,\u201d Facebook said in\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0announcement. \u201cNews publishers in particular have expressed concerns about older stories being shared on social media as current news, which can misconstrue\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0state of current events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0new feature, a notification will pop up with a warning before people share an old article.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">The<\/span>\u00a0platform will still allow people to continue sharing\u00a0<span class=\"il\">the<\/span>\u00a0old article \u201cif they decide an article is still relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it will also be testing other notification screens, including potentially adding a notification for links mentioning COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is launching a new feature&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26386,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26385\/revisions\/26386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}