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.

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 ...

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 announced on Friday that it is killing off its controversial Trending news section next week. “From research, we found that over time people found the product to be less and less useful ...

The update comes days after accusations surfaced online that the highly shared Women's March didn't show as trending on Facebook. The social site has been trying to curb fake news and filter bubbles.

However, Trending’s reliance on clicks and re-shares in this case makes Facebook’s once-helpful news module far less useful for everyone. Additional reporting by Sarah Perez. Topics ...

Facebook is changing its Trending feature to reduce human editorial decisions and automate the feature, according to a blog post. Stories that appear in "Trending" will now be chosen by an algorithm.

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook is in hot water over recent reports suggesting that it shows bias in the Trending Topics feed. Here's everything you need to know about the issue.

Facebook’s trending topics don’t shift as much as Twitter’s do, which can change by the minute. Facebook’s advantage over Twitter is the ability to create a more personal trending section.

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.