: Is the correct way for adding the author's name on Facebook Sharing to use: meta name="author" In some Facebook posts I see the author of the page, beyond the title and description. For example,

@Kevin317

I think best practise would be to use the open graph tag 'article:author', which links to your facebook profile. This is how Facebook ask you to declare an author.
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/article
Generally, when you use the Open Graph Debugger, warning messages are along the lines of "The 'og:NAME' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.".

I imagine this is the same for the author tag - they will use the old meta name=author if they cannot find their own tag.

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