Some have alleged there is political bias in the feature. — -- Facebook is making several changes to its trending topics feature following an investigation stemming from anonymous allegations of ...

In August, Facebook released a statement in their newsroom, explaining that humans no longer write descriptions for the Trending feature on the sidebar of your Facebook profile and, rather, the whole ...

Internal Facebook guidelines reveal how the social network relies on its editors' news judgment, on top of its algorithms, to determine the content of its influential "Trending Topics" section.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a "trending topic" on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over ...

The company's newly tweaked "Trending" module promoted a "totally fake" story. — -- Facebook’s newly-tweaked “Trending” module, barely three days old, has already made its first big gaffe: ...

Facebook could be forced back to the drawing board in order to fix its newly automated Trending topics section after its algorithm suffered two consecutive blunders. Last week, the social network ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is shutting down its embattled "trending topics" section, the company announced on Friday, putting an end to a tool that was often a flashpoint for allegations of political ...

Following tests of Twitter-style Trending Topics on the web and mobile in August, Facebook today officially launches a redesigned “Trending” section on its web homepage’s sidebar in the US, UK, Canada ...

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An article in an online publication accusing Facebook of suppressing the Women's March in its trending topics caused a little tempest on social media over the weekend. Facebook says it did not ...

Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about ...

In the era of "fake news," Facebook is doing away with its "Trending" news section. At the same time, it is testing new products aimed at delivering news from trustworthy sources. "We're removing ...