Facebook shuting down trending topics section

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Facebook has finally decided to remove its troubled trending topics section, this press was made on Friday 1^st june saying that the feature was better of dead as they work on building a different news product.

This section used to take up important real estate on the social media news update on the desktop interface, has faced backlashed since it was first discovered in 2014, was criticized for surfacing conspiracies and fake information news, the section sparked a lot of complaints in 2016 when a report was allegedly the feature purposely suppressed conservative news outlet. 

Due to this reaction to the 2016 controversy to pull the human moderation off the trending topics section but supposedly being monitored by a complex algorithm has being accused to cause even more scandals like electromagnetic tampering and creating misinformed campaigns.

Earlier during the week, Facebook minimized a blog post that was announcing the change in the trending topic section since it was only available in 5 countries and accounted for less than 1.5% of clicks to new publishers hence people found the article to be less and less useful over time.

Facebook has revealed its back up plan on replacing the trending topics section with “breaking news” label and launched the ‘’today in” section on local news and also launch video feed.

and weekly deep dives in its watch dive section and already carried out beta tests on them which caused 4% increase in clicks and shares and the today in section is driving 8% more traffic in publishers clicks which is actually a good sign.