Facebook says an internal investigation revealed no evidence of political favoritism in the "trending topics" tool. However, the social media giant is making changes to the feature. WSJ's Lee Hawkins ...

Facebook says it is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a "trending topic" on the giant social network, a move adopted after a backlash over a report saying it ...

A former Facebook employee alleges the people tasked with curating Facebook’s “trending” news section suppressed conservative news, creating a “chilling effect,” Gizmodo reported Monday. The former ...

In an apparent attempt to eliminate political bias from its trending topics section, Facebook recently announced that a new algorithm would take over writing descriptions of the top news stories.

Hoping to stop the spread of hoaxes and false stories on its platform, Facebook is making changes to its “Trending Topics” feature, surfacing only those stories that have been covered by what it deems ...

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