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 said Monday it will stop relying as much on other news outlets to inform what goes into its Trending Topics section - a part of Facebook's website that despite its small size has grown into a ...

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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 search ...

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 ...

If you look at Facebook’s Trending section for any of your news, you might have noticed some changes recently. Facebook announced the updates in January but they took a few weeks to fully roll out.

Last month Facebook launched a Trending column, taking a cue from Twitter by highlighting the most popular topics being talked about and sending you to the news stories attached to them. Originally, ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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 ...