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The social network adds a more automated design that strips human-written descriptions from its list of popular topics, following months of criticism over how it displayed news stories. Ian Sherr ...

One of the most effective ways to connect with your audience is to weave trending topics throughout your editorial and social media calendar. Not everything you publish has to be related to a current ...

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 waging a war on “filter bubbles,” and has redesigned the Trending Topics section once again in an attempt to be a fair and direct news source, no matter what users’ views or political ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a "trending topic" on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over ...

Back in late August, the algorithmically-driven process that had taken the place of Facebook's Trending Topics editorial team pushed a fake story about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly to the top of the ...

Following criticisms that Facebook’s trending topics purposely avoid conservative news media, users have been clamoring to know more about what exactly goes into the small trending box on the right ...

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 ...

Responding to a media firestorm that erupted this week over how Facebook puts together its prominent "Trending Topics" section for its 1.7 billion users, the company publicly shared its internal ...