Facebook abandons personalized trending topics
Facebook’s Trending Topics section – and the company’s attempt at personalizing it – has been controversial since its inception. While it’s a useful vignette of the topics people are talking about, Facebook’s attempts at tailoring the section to your own interests were often met with backlash. Now the company has given up on personalization and settled on a more traditional list of the most popular current events. The update consists of three changes. In Facebook’s own words, these are: Trending topics will now feature a publisher headline below each topic name An improved system to determine what is trending Everyone in the…
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