Now, the bad news: That spam isn't very much of the total volume.
The good news: The spam problem is fixable, they believe, although it might require some changes to the way e-mail travels from sender to server to recipient.
The unbundling could mean the company feels more comfortable with the current design and how news feed spam is handled within it.
Editors can also come in and adjust the rankings based on breaking news and spamming.
Highlight distorts this, and will encourage news feed spamming club promoters, musicians, small businesses, or anyone else with something to gain from more clicks.
One notion about The Fake News Problem that you'll hear occasionally if you spend time around Silicon Valley types is that fake news is basically "spam that people want to read," in the words of tech prognosticator Benedict Evans.
A recent analysis of the "Twitter stream" revealed that a substantial proportion of tweets contain general chatter, user-to-user conversations only of interest to the parties involved, links to interesting pieces of news content, or spam and self promotion [5].
Whilst some of this precious cyber real-estate has yet to be capitalised on (the.org domain just says it's 'under development') others are already cashing in on the clicks – the.co.uk URL currently hosts a mirror of 'Tyras Kids', a site apparently dedicated to spamming news about American teen idols.
A typical user can often miss the subtle ways Facebook's AI influences their actions, including photo tag suggestions, algorithmically decided news feeds, friend recommendations, spam blocking and ad targeting.
As an important step in natural language processing (NLP), text classification system has been widely used in many fields, like spam filtering, news classification, and web page detection.
