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 has removed descriptions from Trending topics. The announcement comes months after being criticized for having an anti-conservative bias. Since Facebook Trending launched in 2014, you would ...

In the old version, you’d actually see a brief description of why that particular news is trending. In the new version, you don’t see why that news is trending — you can only see how many people are ...

Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated "trending" news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press. The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn't popular. But the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is shutting down its embattled "trending topics" section, the company announced on Friday, putting an end to a tool that was often a flashpoint for allegations of political ...

The big blue social media giant is changing the way its Facebook Trending feature works. Again. And while that doesn’t mean much to those who don’t get their news from Facebook, it does signal the ...

Facebook is updating its Trending topics feed in a bid to deliver the autonomous news algorithm it has always promised. There is just one small problem; the social network still requires a human team ...

Facebook is updating Trending, the section of the service that highlights popular topics being discussed on Facebook, to better prevent fake news stories from appearing there. As part of the update, ...

Facebook’s controversial Trending topics feature is sacrificing support for niche interests in favor of an internationally scalable approach that could create nationwide digital water cooler moments ...