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 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 ...

Facebook is getting rid of its Trending Topics feature, according to a blog post the social network published Friday. The Trending sidebar, located on the right-hand side on desktop, displays popular ...

In a surprising Friday news dump, Facebook announced it will remove the Trending news section from its website and app. The company says its users are increasingly consuming news through mobile and ...

Facebook altered its Trending Topics section last week. Unfortunately, the new change makes this particular section of Facebook much less useful than it used to be. Here’s how the two version of ...

A screen shot of the top of the trending page accessed after clicking on a Facebook item in Trending Topics. (Via Facebook) In a collision of circumstances, news about how Facebook selects items for ...

Facebook has pulled back the curtain on how its trending topics feature works, explaining that a computer algorithm identifies popular subjects and presents them to a team of human employees. Thursday ...

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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 ...

In another push to improve the scope and quality of news users see on Facebook, the company unveiled several updates to its prominent "Trending" topics feature on Wednesday. Prior to Wednesday's ...

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 ...

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 ...