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Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization


Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. The

Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. Meta admits that some accounts on its platform try to game the algorithm to increase views or gain unfair monetization advantages, which results in spammy content flooding users’ feeds. This type of behavior includes accounts that share content with long captions alongside an excessive number of hashtags.

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