So it looks like this was just a normal feature: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-twitter-moment https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twit

So it looks like this was just a normal feature: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-twitter-moment https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-create-a-tw... These are not regular tweets, it was a feature specifically to allow reporting of news. It looks like Moments were a curated list of recommendations by topic but specifically around news. With topics being "Media, Pop Culture, Music, Travel, Politics, and more." Assuming it's true something did change and affect the trending trends, could it be if Moments stopped happening, news just stop showing up, and people just stopped discussing the news?