Facebook announced it is updating its trending topics feature to showcase other publications covering a given news story, hoping to expose readers to a wider variety of sources as the company faces ...

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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.

Facebook on Monday denied any evidence of ‘systematic political bias’ in the selection or prominence of stories included in its Trending Topics feature, but promised changes in its processes in any ...

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 ...

The world's largest social network has finally settled on an effective way to list basic news stories. Facebook deployed a revised version of its controversial "Trending Topics" feature Thursday. It ...

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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Trending Topics is no more. Facebook said on Friday that it has decided to sunset the feature—which was ...

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 ...