Facebook adds 'Satire' tag to fun articles

5 Dariya News

New York 17-Aug-2014

For those who like parody news outlet The Onion and post those fun articles on Facebook, the social media website is going to add a "satire" tag with their news feed.If a user clicks through an Onion article and returns to their news feed, they will be auto tagged with "Satire", Ars Technica reported.This is how it works.If a friend posts an Onion link to his or her Facebook feed, click on it for a laugh.

Once you are done at The Onion and come back to your desktop or laptop browser, Facebook will generate a box with that article's headline and the word "satire" in brackets.According to Facebook, "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," a Facebook spokesperson told Ars Technica.