Internal Facebook guidelines reveal how the social network relies on its editors' news judgment, on top of its algorithms, to determine the content of its influential "Trending Topics" section.

Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story ...

Facebook is shutting down its trending topics section, a feature that was intended to highlight interesting conversations on the platform but ended up creating political headaches for the company.

Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on mobile that includes its own link in the app’s main navigation. This follows the company’s earlier announcement this spring of a ...

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who ...

Facebook deployed a revised version of its controversial "Trending Topics" feature Thursday. It now shows each user a standardized list of news stories based on an automated survey of what a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new design will become the default look for facebook.com later this year, the company told Digital Trends. The redesign is about more than just a more minimalist look consistent with the ...

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