referring to Facebook wants Trending Topics to feature more news sourcesFacebook isn't deciding which publications will be shown. Today, Facebook announced an update to its Trending Topics section that will make the list of news stories easier to parse on mobile with a more diverse list of sources. After firing the human curators who oversaw story selection and watering down the Trending list to a regional list of popular subjects, Facebook seems to have found an equilibrium. The company spent a healthy chunk of last year tweaking Trending Topics after a controversy over liberal bias, which sparked fierce debates about Facebook's editorial influence in the run up to the US election. So the new update will simply show "some of the most popular stories about that topic on Facebook," the company's blog post reads.
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Now, when you click on a trending topic, you'll see a carousel of stories from different publications that you can swipe through. The tweaks to Trending Topics seem like Facebook's attempt to quell that criticism. This isn't the first time Facebook's made big changes to Trending Topics. The social network on Wednesday said it revamped its Trending Topics feature -- which shows you buzzed-about news stories on Facebook -- to include a handful of stories on any given topic. The social network is running a test with a small group of users that puts the top three trending topics in a your news feed.
Today's redesign doesn't change the way Facebook finds Trending topics. "The stories that appear in this section are some of the most popular stories about that topic on Facebook. In January, Facebook updated its Trending processes in an attempt to filter out fake-news articles. "One of the things we regularly hear from people who use Trending is that it can be difficult to find in the Facebook mobile app," the company says. A handful of smartphone users will see the top three Trending topics directly in their News Feeds, and Facebook plans to use this test to fine-tune a new mobile layout.
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Facebook adds story carousels to Trending Topics
Now, when you click on a trending topic, you'll see a carousel of stories from different publications that you can swipe through. The tweaks to Trending Topics seem like Facebook's attempt to quell that criticism. This isn't the first time Facebook's made big changes to Trending Topics. The social network on Wednesday said it revamped its Trending Topics feature -- which shows you buzzed-about news stories on Facebook -- to include a handful of stories on any given topic. The social network is running a test with a small group of users that puts the top three trending topics in a your news feed.
Facebook redesigns Trending topics in its war on filter bubbles
Today's redesign doesn't change the way Facebook finds Trending topics. "The stories that appear in this section are some of the most popular stories about that topic on Facebook. In January, Facebook updated its Trending processes in an attempt to filter out fake-news articles. "One of the things we regularly hear from people who use Trending is that it can be difficult to find in the Facebook mobile app," the company says. A handful of smartphone users will see the top three Trending topics directly in their News Feeds, and Facebook plans to use this test to fine-tune a new mobile layout.
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