Facebook Shutting Down its ‘Trending’ Topics Feature
World's leading social media platform Facebook is shutting down its manipulated "trending" news section after four years, a company executive has said.
The trending section creates problems for Facebook with fake news, political balance and the limitations of artificial intelligence in managing the elections, person and party ideology & manipulate peoples behaviour.
Facebook launched "trending" in 2014 as a list of headlines to the side of the main news feed, it was a straightforward move to steal users from Twitter by giving them a quick look at the most popular news of the moment.
The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn't popular. It was available only in five countries and accounted for less than 1.5 percent of clicks to the websites of news publishers, according t...