Facebook Tests "Satire" Tag To Avoid Confusion On News Feed 131
An anonymous reader writes "In an attempt to keep you from having to explain to your crazy relatives that despite what they read, Vice President Biden *didn't* get a grow light delivered to the White House under a fake name, Facebook is testing a "satire" tag on news feeds. A Facebook representative issued the following statement to Ars Technica: "We are running a small test which shows the text '[Satire]' in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units."
Sounds good (Score:5, Funny)
Can they add a "blatant politically motivated lie" tag while they're at it?
Re:Says who? (Score:5, Funny)
Let's face it, the Onion is a well known satyrical news site
Can't people just tell by the goat horns?
Re: Will create more confusion (Score:2, Funny)
In other news, The Onion is testing a new Serious tag to be used for non- satirical articles.