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The feature, located at the top-right portion of the News Feed, provided links to news stories that people were sharing and commenting about on Facebook. Facebook announced on Friday that it planned ...

Facebook is discontinuing its troubled "trending" section, the social network announced Friday. The section, which launched in 2014, was designed to help people quickly find interesting topics on ...

Facebook has announced that it is shuttering one of its most contentious features amidst increasing "fake news" controversy: the Trending feature. Since its launch in 2014, people have been utilizing ...

In the old version, you’d actually see a brief description of why that particular news is trending. In the new version, you don’t see why that news is trending — you can only see how many people are ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is shutting down its embattled "trending topics" section, the company announced on Friday, putting an end to a tool that was often a flashpoint for allegations of political ...

Facebook’s Trending section got off to a rough start, from accusations of suppressing conservative viewpoints to pushing bogus news stories after human editors were removed. But after some tweaks, the ...

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 is shutting down its ill-fated "trending" news section after four years, a company executive told The Associated Press. The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn't popular. But the ...

That would all be silly and in good fun if Facebook did not have so much control over where and how people get their news. A misleading or outright false article reaching the front of Trending ...