Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles
Found on Ars Technica on Friday, 15 August 2014
We can only assume this was implemented as a reaction to users believing that Onion links are nonfiction reports.
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."
That's a somewhat rhetorical question. After all, the users are already dumb enough to use Facebook.