SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook came out swinging against charges of political bias in the news stories it promotes to its 1.6 billion users, insisting it surfaces the most popular topics regardless of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Facebook is shutting down its trending ...

Facebook is getting rid of its Trending Topics feature, according to a blog post the social network published Friday. The Trending sidebar, located on the right-hand side on desktop, displays popular ...

Twitter is trying to make its trending topics easier to understand. The company will soon add pinned to tweets and descriptions to some of its trends in an effort to explain how and why trending ...

Facebook on Monday denied any evidence of ‘systematic political bias’ in the selection or prominence of stories included in its Trending Topics feature, but promised changes in its processes in any ...

When you hear “trending topics,” you probably think of Twitter or other social channels where they show what topics are most buzzworthy on the platform at that moment. Trends can be quite fleeting, ...