Fed up with being taken in by headlines such as “Security Experts Advise Americans To Not Click Anything”? Facebook may have the answer: the social network is testing a tag to flag up stories from sites such as the Onion, reports Mashable. A Facebook spokesman said: “We are running a small test which shows the text “[Satire]” in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units.” A screengrab obtained by Ars Technica shows how the tags would look (in the sublinks to the main story):

Facebook satire tag trial Photograph: /Ars Technica

Monkey is sure the move would prevent gullible readers from being taken in – but can’t help feeling it would spoil the fun of spotting the Onion headlines among the breaking news on Facebook.

