Facebook dumps personalized trending topics after backlash To help fight fake news, the social network takes another crack at how it presents popular stories.

Facebook's curated list of trending news topics has been embroiled in controversy this week, thanks to allegations that conservative news stories and topics were filtered out. Now, the story about ...

Facebook is in hot water over recent reports suggesting that it shows bias in the Trending Topics feed. Here's everything you need to know about the issue.

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

Facebook is making several changes following an investigation stemming from anonymous allegations of political bias in the social network’s trending topics feature.

Facebook says there will still be humans who check on the section to ensure that topics like "lunch," which people talk about every day, will not be flagged as trending.

On August 29th, Trending Topics highlighted a story that falsely claimed Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly had been fired. The story was visible to Facebook users for several hours before it was removed.

Following tests of Twitter-style Trending Topics on the web and mobile in August, Facebook today officially launches a redesigned "Trending" section on its web homepage's sidebar in the US, UK ...

Facebook releases 28-page doc to fight Trending Topics bias charge Facebook made the announcement after meeting last week with prominent conservatives including top Senate Republican John Thune of ...

The social network on Wednesday announced a major revamp to its trending topics feature -- that section on the right-hand side of your news feed that lists news topics that are popular on Facebook.

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 ...

Facebook says it did not intentionally block any story and is revealing a new way its trending-topics algorithm will now operate.