The company's newly tweaked "Trending" module promoted a "totally fake" story. — -- Facebook’s newly-tweaked “Trending” module, barely three days old, has already made its first big gaffe: ...

Now, when you click on a trending topic, you'll see a carousel with stories about it. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart ...

Facebook says there is “no evidence” that former contractors at the social network deliberately suppressed conservative news on the site’s Trending Topics section. Citing an unnamed former journalist ...

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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 ...

Update - May 10, 2016: This story was based on a conversation we had in August with Facebook about how its trending feature works. A Gizmodo story published in May reports that human editors have ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- 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 The company claims the tool is outdated and ...

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 ...