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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 ...

Facebook just posted its internal guidelines for choosing which stories appear in its "Trending" topics section on its right rail. The company posted the guidelines in response to a storm of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Another year, another Facebook controversy. The company is in the spotlight once again, but this time, it has nothing to do with user data collection or conducting tests on users without them knowing ...

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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 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 social network promoted a fake news story over the weekend about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. It's the latest in a string of controversies the Trending Topics feature has faced. Ian Sherr ...