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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook got rid of human editors for its trending news items feature on Friday, reassigning the task of writing headline descriptions to an algorithm. By Tobias Burns The algorithm that controls the ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been more than three months since Gizmodo first published a story claiming Facebook 's human editors were suppressing conservative news content on the site's Trending Topics section. 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 ...