Facebook announced it is updating its trending topics feature to showcase other publications covering a given news story, hoping to expose readers to a wider variety of sources as the company faces ...

Facebook says an internal investigation revealed no evidence of political favoritism in the "trending topics" tool. However, the social media giant is making changes to the feature. WSJ's Lee Hawkins ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded to accusations that the social network’s “trending” list has been suppressing conservative media, saying his team is conducting a full investigation and has ...

One of the simplest ways to discover trending hashtags on Facebook is through the autocomplete feature available on the mobile app. When you start typing a keyword in the search bar, Facebook's search ...

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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 a report saying it ...

Facebook ran into trouble earlier when its Trending Topics list editors were alleged to be biased against conservative. With an algorithm-only new system Trending highlighted a far-right Website's ...

Meta’s Threads app, the social media platform that rivals X (formerly Twitter), may get a trending topics section. The potential new feature has come to light after an app developer reposted ...

Want some Twitter in your Facebook? No? Too bad. According to a report by All Things D, Facebook is getting trending topics and they’re rolling out today. Oh, and yes, they are literally going to be ...