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Yep, and they came out with a report to let normal users know that's not how it works.
by techthroway443 10y ago
Yep, and they came out with a report to let normal users know that's not how it works.
- tristanj 10y agoWhich report is this? I've seen the Facebook press release, I've seen Tom Stocky's post, but I've never seen this report. Source? And the biggest issue I have, is that as far as I know, from January 2014 to present, Facebook's help page was written in a way to mislead users on how trending topics actually work [1]. From reading that help description, most users, including me, imagined Trending topics to work as /u/cft described. Yet that page has no mention that every single trending article on Facebook is curated by a human. How is that not an enormous oversight? [1] https://www.facebook.com/help/737806312958641 https://www.facebook.com/help/737806312958641 How does Facebook determine what topics are trending? > Trending shows you topics that have recently become popular on Facebook. The topics you see are based on a number of factors including engagement, timeliness, Pages you've liked and your location. > On a computer, the topics are grouped into 5 categories: All News, Politics, Science and Technology, Sports and Entertainment.