Facebook’s bots are still highlighting fake news in its Trending section

Facebook recently put bots in charge of picking articles for its Trending section – a decision that was met with backlash after it was found that the algorithms had surfaced a fake report about Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, within days of being implemented. Several weeks later, it seems the problem still hasn’t been fixed: The Washington Post has been following Facebook’s Trending topics from August 31 to September 22 and found five fake stories, as well as three grossly inaccu