Facebook is set to kill its “trending” news section next week after four years and is testing a new breaking news feature that could replace it. The company announced the move on Friday, saying that the trending feature wasn’t popular and accounted for less than 1.5 percent of clicks to the websites of news publishers. More problematic was the feature’s tendency to spread fake news, particularly during the 2016 presidential election, The Associated Press noted. Facebook’s head of news products, Alex Hardiman, wrote in the announcement that the company is currently testing a breaking news label that would put the power of editorial decisions in the hands of news organizations. “There are other ways for us to better invest our resources,” Hardiman told the AP.

Source: Huffington Post June 01, 2018 16:07 UTC