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When you hear “trending topics,” you probably think of Twitter or other social channels where they show what topics are most buzzworthy on the platform at that moment. Trends can be quite fleeting, ...

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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 has pulled back the curtain on how its trending topics feature works, explaining that a computer algorithm identifies popular subjects and presents them to a team of human employees. Thursday ...

Twitter is trying to make its trending topics easier to understand. The company will soon add pinned to tweets and descriptions to some of its trends in an effort to explain how and why trending ...

In another push to improve the scope and quality of news users see on Facebook, the company unveiled several updates to its prominent "Trending" topics feature on Wednesday. Prior to Wednesday's ...

Facebook on Monday denied any evidence of ‘systematic political bias’ in the selection or prominence of stories included in its Trending Topics feature, but promised changes in its processes in any ...

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 ...

The social network promoted a fake news story over the weekend about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly. It's the latest in a string of controversies the Trending Topics feature has faced. Ian Sherr ...

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