“Have you read it?” Facebook is deploying a tool against notorious shareholders

The operators of the world’s largest social network have decided to take the next step in the fight against the spread of lies, hoaxes and other nonsense. Rather, against reckless and inattentive spread. Facebook introduces a feature that will users a little “slow down” when sharing an article without first reading it, respectively opening. Sending an article to your own wall or to other places on this network that the person in question has not even read will not just happen.

Starting today, we’re testing a way to promote more informed sharing of news articles. If you go to share a news article link you haven’t opened, we’ll show a prompt encouraging you to open it and read it, before sharing it with others. pic.twitter.com/brlMnlg6Qg

— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) May 10, 2021

An application or website will not explicitly block this practice. However, when sharing an article, Facebook tries to warn the user through a dialog box that it is entering it without reading it. The goal, of course, is to get acquainted with its contents first and know what exactly is going to send on.

Of course, it is not excluded that the person in question identifies with a possible false or factually twisted article, but the potential to have a positive effect on some notorious “shares” the novelty has. And it can again help to improve culture on the networks. Facebook announced testing of the new feature on Twitter on May 10. He was also inspired by this format.

Have you ever met this dialog box on Facebook?

Source: FB