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 ...

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 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 ...

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 isn't a great place to get your news. Yet millions of Americans use the social network to learn about what's going on in the world every day. This is core to a new controversy over Facebook's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the best ways to measure "what's hot" on the Internet is a quick glance at Twitter's trending topics. It can feature heavy subjects (Syria and Assad feature prominently these days) as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...