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With the election finally winding down, the news cycle has been pretty grim. Hillary Clinton is busy fending off…

Facebook’s trending topics are having (another) bad day. The social network allowed the hashtag #RepealThe19th to be…

Facebook’s trending news module is making headlines again, and this time it’s for propping up 9/11 truther nonsense…

The New Yorker’s social media editor Saira Khan went ballistic in a lengthy Twitter rant about her experience as a…

Facebook unceremoniously fired at least 15 editors from its trending news team on Friday, as Quartz first reported.…

Today, Facebook announced that human curators will no longer write short descriptions that accompany trending topics…

Facebook is adding political scenarios to its orientation training following concerns, first reported by Gizmodo,…

Facebook is enacting a number of changes to its trending news module following a two-week internal investigation.…

This story was originally published at 6:35 p.m. EDT. It has been updated to add Mark Zuckerberg’s comments.

The US Senate Commerce Committee—which has jurisdiction over media issues, consumer protection issues, and internet…

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s…

Depending on whom you ask, Facebook is either the savior or destroyer of journalism in our time. An estimated 600…

A new Chinese character, "duang," has gone viral. Nobody's sure what it actually means, but Jackie Chan has…

Facebook will start showing you trending stories to the right of your News Feed, just under where you're used to…