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    Facebook's trending feature promotes 9/11 conspiracy

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    Vijaya
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    Mansi Motwani
    Last updated on Sep 12, 2016, 06:14 pm
    Facebook's trending feature promotes 9/11 conspiracy
  • Facebook's new auto trending feature promoted a social media post about a 9/11 conspiracy as legitimate news.

    The story suggested that the Twin Towers were brought down by a controlled explosion and not by terrorists, alleging that it was an inside job carried out by the government.

    Facebook took down the story saying, "As a temporary step to resolving this we've removed the topic."

  • In this article
    What is Facebook's trending feature? Difference between Facebook and Twitter How does Facebook determine the trending topics? Facebook alleged of Bias against Conservative News Facebook claims no Bias after Internal Investigation Facebook automates trending feature, scales down human input Facebook's algorithms trend a fake News Story Facebook's trending feature promotes 9/11 conspiracy
  • 16 Jan 2014

    What is Facebook's trending feature?

    What is Facebook's trending feature?
  • Facebook launched the 'Trending' feature in January 2014.

    The trending section appears on the right hand side of the user home page . It shows the topics that are popular at a given point of time.

    The topics are personalized lists of most mentioned words/phrases. One can click on any of the trending topics to see posts about it from friends, and the public.

  • Information

    Difference between Facebook and Twitter

  • Trending topics on Facebook are supplemented with a short description, explaining why a particular topic is trending, unlike Twitter's trends where a trending hashtag might not always make sense to a user who is unaware of the subject.

  • how does it work?

    How does Facebook determine the trending topics?

    How does Facebook determine the trending topics?
  • Trending topics are personalized and they are based on factors like a user's interests, pages liked, location, engagement, and timelines. But majorly, it highlights the most mentioned topics which receive a sudden spike in 'mentions'.

    One can also customize the list of trending topics by hiding the unwanted ones.

    The topics are categorized under five groups : News, Politics, Sports, Science&Technology, and Entertainment.

  • 09 May 2016

    Facebook alleged of Bias against Conservative News

    Facebook alleged of Bias against Conservative News
  • Facebook was accused of manipulating the 'trending' section on its website.

    The allegations of bias surfaced when Gizmodo, in an article stated that some of Facebook's former news curators said that they were told to suppress conservative/right-wing news stories in favor of liberal ones.

    It also mentioned that the curators were asked to "artificially inject" stories into the trending section.

  • 23 May 2016

    Facebook claims no Bias after Internal Investigation

    Facebook claims no Bias after Internal Investigation
  • Facebook's internal investigation into claims of bias revealed that there was no evidence of it and that the conservative and liberal content was 'approved in equal frequencies' for the trending section.

    Responding to a 'letter of inquiry' from the US Congressional Committee, Facebook said that it will eliminate reliance from external sites and RSS, to "identify, validate or assess the importance of trending topics."

  • 28 Aug 2016

    Facebook automates trending feature, scales down human input

    Facebook automates trending feature, scales down human input
  • Facebook announced that its 'trending' feature will further be automated, thus scaling down on human input.

    The social networking site said that it will no longer display the trending topic description, written by human editors. This was partly being done in order to prevent personal bias.

    Facebook will instead make use of algorithms to "pull excerpts directly from news stories."

  • 30 Aug 2016

    Facebook's algorithms trend a fake News Story

    Facebook's algorithms trend a fake News Story
  • Two days after dismissing the editorial staff of its Trending News team, Facebook's algorithms trended a fake news story.

    On Sunday, 28th August, 2016, a story falsely stating that Fox anchor Megyn Kelly was fired, appeared in the Trending section.

    Facebook had laid off a total of 26 employees (19 curators and 7 copy editors) for letting algorithms pick 'Trending News'.

  • 12 Sep 2016

    Facebook's trending feature promotes 9/11 conspiracy

    Facebook's trending feature promotes 9/11 conspiracy
  • Facebook's new auto trending feature promoted a social media post about a 9/11 conspiracy as legitimate news.

    The story suggested that the Twin Towers were brought down by a controlled explosion and not by terrorists, alleging that it was an inside job carried out by the government.

    Facebook took down the story saying, "As a temporary step to resolving this we've removed the topic."

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