Facebook's Trending section got off to a rough start, from accusations of suppressing conservative viewpoints to pushing bogus news stories after human editors were removed. But after some tweaks, the ...

Facebook's Trending Topics—an innocuous-seeming little sidebar module that has become the seething epicenter of controversy over bias and fake news—is getting another reboot. In the past, Facebook ...

Facebook’s Trending section got off to a rough start, from accusations of suppressing conservative viewpoints to pushing bogus news stories after human editors were removed. But after some tweaks, the ...

Facebook’s controversial Trending topics feature is sacrificing support for niche interests in favor of an internationally scalable approach that could create nationwide digital water cooler moments ...

Facebook is retiring Trending—the box that displayed all the latest news—because, it says, the feature had outlived its usefulness. The Trending section has been on Facebook since 2014, and served as ...

Even the most casual observer of the media would find it difficult to avoid the furor surrounding this week's allegations of bias against conservative viewpoints in Facebook's Trending section.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is changing its Trending Topics that highlights the most popular news on the giant social network to fight the incursion of fake news. Among the changes: Everyone will see the ...

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