Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other
Adventures in context collapse. — 1 hr ago … We Need To Get Rid Of Twitter Trending Topics Tweets: @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ezraklein , @ambernoelle , @alexbrucesmith , @trevinwax , @ezraklein , @...
Facebook's Trending topics will show regional, not personalized, stories moving forward, publisher headline and name under each topic, more
Facebook has been blamed by many for its complicity … Roy Greenslade / The Guardian : Facebook is trying to tackle fake news, but what should we do? Breitbart Tech / Associated Press : Facebook Takes ...
The Washington Post tracked Facebook's Trending Topics section over three weeks, uncovering five fake stories and three profoundly inaccurate ones
The Intersect ran a little experiment a few weeks ago: During the work day, we'd check in with Facebook each hour, on the hour …
Zuckerberg meets conservatives, calls to rebuild trust after Trending Topics bias claims
Facebook is courting conservative friends through a Wednesday afternoon meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — The unusual session with about a dozen prominent conservative commentators and leaders …
Facebook director of product management for News Feed says Trending Topics team's priority is bug fixing, biased News Feed wouldn't serve 1B users well
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky: we found no evidence contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives
My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today's reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics …