Designing for the world of post truth: Facebook is using subtle behavior design techniques to avoid being neither censoring nor appreciative of potentially fake news.

techcrunch.com/2018/04/27/facebook-false-news/

Facebook shrinks fake news after warnings backfire

Tell someone not to do something and sometimes they just want to do it more. That’s what happened when Facebook put red flags on debunked fake news. Users who wanted to believe the false stories had their fevers ignited and they actually shared the hoaxes more. That led Facebook to ditch the incendiary red flags in […]