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    FACEBOOK KILLS ‘TRENDING’ TOPICS, TESTS BREAKING NEWS LABEL

    Jun 08, 2018 3 minutes

    Facebook is shutting down its ill-fated “trending” news section after four years.

    The company claims the tool is outdated and wasn’t popular. But the trending section also proved problematic in ways that would presage Facebook’s later problems with fake news, political balance and the limitations of artificial intelligence in managing the messy human world.

    When Facebook launched “trending” in 2014 as a list of headlines to the side of the main news feed, it was a straightforward move to steal users from Twitter by giving them a quick look

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