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 ...

To help fight fake news, the social network takes another crack at how it presents popular stories. Now everyone in a region will see the same topics. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In another push to improve the scope and quality of news users see on Facebook, the company unveiled several updates to its prominent "Trending" topics feature on Wednesday. Prior to Wednesday's ...

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 ...