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  • 2022-10-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Facebook Hoax Promises Way 'To Regain Friends and Get Rid of Ads' (en)
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  • In October 2022, we received reader mail that asked if copying and pasting text from a Facebook post could help to show more content from friends and also remove ads. The copy-and-paste posts, which we refer to as copypasta, claimed that posting the text on Facebook would upgrade the system and help to regain friends in your news feed and get rid of ads. However, this was a hoax. Most of the posts that we found looked like this. The posts read as follows: We previously reported on other variations of this same hoax. One such post from 2017 claimed that copying and pasting its text could help to avoid hearing from the same 26 Facebook friends and nobody else. Another one promised that copying and pasting the characters OO5251839 could circumvent Facebook's algorithm and make old friends appear in users' feeds. Neither of these posts was true. In 2019, Facebook published an article about these sorts of myths and provided some insight into how the company's algorithms functioned: The company also added one interesting tidbit about how users can see more posts from specific friends: In the past, we noticed that some users had insisted in their comments that the supposed trick worked, even though it's a hoax. They claimed that they started to see more posts from friends whom they hadn't engaged with in some time. However, again, copying and pasting some text one time isn't going to upgrade Facebook's system, nor is it going to help users to regain friends in your news feed and get rid of ads. (en)
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