Facebook Starts Rolling Out Down Vote Button To The More Users

Facebook Starts Rolling Out Down Vote Button To The More Users: Facebook has begun rolling out a feature called down Vote that lets users register an adverse reaction to comments on the social networking platform, but it is not the dislike button users have a long desire.

Facebook Starts Rolling Out Down Vote Button To The More Users

Clicking the downvote button hides the comment for the user who taps it, then asks the user to say whether the comment was offensive, misleading, or off-topic.

Facebook is confirming the test in February this year.

Now, it appears the feature is rolling out to a more significant number of users.

The Reddit-style downvote button aims to improve the quality of discourse on the platform, The Next Web reporting on Monday.

A dislike button has on many users’ wish list since the social media giant introduced its like switch in February 2009.

Facebook’s like button allows users to express their approval for the messages, photos and other content their friends posting.

The social networking giant is also literally sizing down the doubtful stories to prevent the triumph of falsehood on its platform.

As part of its new strategy to combat fake news, Facebook wants its users to miss these stories at the time of scrolling their News Feed, while not withdrawing them altogether to walk a fine line between censorship and sensibility.

When an article is verifying as inaccurate by the social network’s third-party fact-checkers, Facebook will shrink the size of the linked post in the News Feed, TechCrunch reporting.

We reduce the visual prominence of feed stories that are fact-checking false; a Facebook spokesperson was quoting as saying.

Facebook is also now using machine learning to look at newly published articles and scan them for signs of falsehood.

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