Facebook's "trending" news section has long been trusted by users of the social media giant to offer them current, accurate news. However, the recent replacement of human editors with robot algorithms has caused a bit of an upset in the news stories. Without humans there to weed out the inaccurate news, the algorithms, "a fertile environment vulnerable to phony information" are allowing fake news to rise to the top of the "trending" news list. Therefore,
Facebook has decided to remove the trending section in hopes of finding more accurate news sources to provide to their users, as well as hopefully gaining influence in the current events area. [1 image, 1 link, 1 quotation, 107 words]
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