Facebook Tweaks Trending Topics Out of Abundance of Caution
Facebook this week said it would make several procedural changes to its Trending Topics feature to quell concerns that the results could be steered in a particular political direction, even though it has found no evidence of bias. The company will retrain workers in the Trending Topics department and institute additional oversight and control to make sure trending stories are selected fairly, said Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch. "Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias," he noted.