Facebook News Feed now downranks sites with stolen content
Published Date: 10/16/2018
Source: techcrunch.com
Facebook is demoting trashy news publishers and other websites that illicitly scrape and republish content from other sources with little or no modification. Today it exclusively told TechCrunch that it will show links less prominently in the News Feed if they have a combination of this new signal about content authenticity along with either clickbait []