In an effort to deal with its unwieldy fake news problem, Facebook is tweaking its “Trending Topics” algorithm: instead of stories dynamically populating individual users’ feeds based on their interests, everyone in the same geographical area will see the same news items. [More]
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Facebook’s “Trending Topics” Will Now Be The Same For Everyone Nearby, List Story’s Publisher
By 1.25.17
Facebook Fires Humans, Hires Robots To Tell You What’s Hot Today
By 8.29.16
If you’ve ever looked at the Trending Topics in the top right of your Facebook newsfeed, just to see chatter about some video game character right next to news about a massive natural disaster, you’ve probably thought, “who on earth is deciding what shows up here?” Well, now it’s what, not a who, and it… might still need some refining. [More]
