Nope, I haven't seen "fake news" in trending and I share your pain otherwise. For all the apocalyptic talk of AI and non-existent privacy... I can think of not

Nope, I haven't seen "fake news" in trending and I share your pain otherwise. For all the apocalyptic talk of AI and non-existent privacy... I can think of nothing less relevant to my tastes and interests than the trending news feature of Facebook... except for maybe the suggested pages feature... oh yeah, and ads. I have gone far out of my way to say which stories I'm not interested in (they ask, after all) and nope... same useless crap different day. So far, if this is the edge of a dystopian future of unbounded technical tyranny: I am thus far not all that impressed. In truth, the only thing that is apparent is they've modeled an "every man" that they then use to throw stuff at me to see what sticks. Apparently, "every man" reads a lot of People Magazine and watches a lot of ESPN. The only reason I use Facebook has to do with my friends and family that are reasonably easy to reach on the platform en masse. Everything else about the platform is useless on a good day and actively annoying on a bad one. I might add that I don't worry too much about sharing personal details with them and really, really wish they'd make a service that takes advantage of all that I've shared with them... even good ads would be welcome. I think I may well just shut my Facebook account down and put reminders in my calendar to touch base more personally with those friends and family I like keeping in touch with.