Does copying message on Facebook reduce sales adverts? Fact Check

ByCraig Haley

A post on Facebook claims you can see less adverts and more posts from friends on your newsfeed by copying and pasting the same post to your profile.

FALSE

An example of the message can be seen below.

I am getting more sales ads posts than friends posts. Hold your finger anywhere in this post and click ′′ copy “. Go to your page where it says “What’s on your mind”. Tap your finger anywhere in the blank field. Click paste. This upgrades the system. Hello new and old friends! Leave even one Hello.

The post is false. There is no feature on Facebook that will allow you to see less adverts on their platform, since adverts are how Facebook acquires much of its revenue.

The only way of reducing adverts or blocking them completely is by installing third party software such as ad blockers, a practise that Facebook has been trying to discourage.

It would make little sense for Facebook to allow their users to reduce the number of adverts by copying and pasting some arbitrary message.


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It appears this message was inspired by another recent hoax that falsely claimed you were limited to seeing a certain number of friends on your newsfeed and copying a message would somehow alleviate that limit. Again though this was not true.

It seems many of these hoaxes rely on promoting some apparent magical powers that copying a message to your profile seemingly possess. In reality though, this is just to lure social media users into sharing the hoax and helping the nonsense spread across the Facebook platform.

We rank the claims false. Copying a message will not reduce sales ads on your newsfeed.

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