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 ...

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 ...

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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: ...

NEW YORK— Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press. The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn’t popular.

Facebook says there is “no evidence” that former contractors at the social network deliberately suppressed conservative news on the site’s Trending Topics section. Citing an unnamed former journalist ...

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 ...

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 ...