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Coming soon to Facebook: a new button for 'dislike'

Published Wed, Sep 16, 2015 · 09:50 PM

San Francisco

FACEBOOK'S famous "like" button, with its silhouette of an upturned thumb, will soon be accompanied by an alternative: a way to "dislike" a post.

On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the company's co-founder and chief executive, said that Facebook was "very close to shipping a test" of a dislike button. He suggested that the new button would probably be more nuanced than a simple thumbs-down option.

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