27-08-2016 11:39 via thedrum.com

Facebook’s trending content to now be algorithmically generated

Facebook will no longer task editors to write descriptions for posts in its Trending section, which was mired in controversy earlier this year over allegations of political bias.
Topics that appear in the section will now be shown as short, algorithmically selected posts alongside the number of people talking about it, the social network revealed in a blog post. Human editors will no longer play a role in picking the topics featured other than for verifying quality.
The decision to reduce human
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