With the changes announced yesterday, Facebook's trending list will consist of topics being covered by several publishers. Facebook also will stop customising trending lists to cater to each user's personal interests. Instead, everyone located in the same region will see the same trending lists, which currently appear in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and India. That change could widen the scope of information Facebook's users see, instead of just topics that reinforce what they may have already heard or read elsewhere. The broader perspective might reduce the chances of Facebook's users living in a "filter bubble" only engaging with people and ideas with which they agree.

Source: dna January 26, 2017 04:44 UTC