Most, if not all, of what you’ve read about Facebook’s Trending team in Gizmodo over the past few weeks has been mischaracterized or taken out of context. But none of this negates the toxic environment of the Trending team. Related: Facebook news selection is in hands of editors not algorithms, documents showOne of the first reports Gizmodo published was about the conditions Trending contractors work under. As a curator, my job was to choose what links would appear on the Facebook “trending” box on the right side of a user’s newsfeed. Every day, I sifted through hundreds of topics (or “keywords”) that Facebook told me were trending on the platform.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2016 10:46 UTC