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 ...

Facebook is shutting down its trending topics section, a feature that was intended to highlight interesting conversations on the platform but ended up creating political headaches for the company.

He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Facebook will remove the Trending news box that’s sat to the right of the desktop News Feed for the last four years ...

Facebook could be forced back to the drawing board in order to fix its newly automated Trending topics section after its algorithm suffered two consecutive blunders. Last week, the social network ...

This week, Facebook came under scrutiny for how it handles trending news, following a series of Gizmodo stories revealing that the “Trending Topics” the company had previously claimed were ...

Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on mobile that includes its own link in the app’s main navigation. This follows the company’s earlier announcement this spring of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is changing its Trending Topics that highlights the most popular news on the giant social network to fight the incursion of fake news. Among the changes: Everyone ...

An article in an online publication accusing Facebook of suppressing the Women's March in its trending topics caused a little tempest on social media over the weekend. Facebook says it did not ...

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.

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook removed human editing from its Trending news topics feature Friday, part of the fallout from charges of anti-conservative political bias leveled at the social networking ...