{"id":243500,"date":"2016-08-28T05:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T05:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=243500"},"modified":"2016-08-28T05:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T05:28:32","slug":"facebook-overhauls-trending-feature-after-bias-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/facebook-overhauls-trending-feature-after-bias-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook overhauls trending feature after bias claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
Social media giant Facebook has overhauled the Trending feature on its site to make posts more automated after claims of left-wing bias.<\/p>\n
Facebook’s 1.7 billion users see news stories and topics picked using a mixture of AI and human input.<\/p>\n
Under the changes, descriptions of stories are no longer written by editorial staff,the company said.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year Facebook was accused of suppressing conservative views, prompting complaints from Republicans.<\/p>\n
A former journalist who worked for the company had alleged that Facebook workers “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers”.<\/p>\n
In a blog post, the company said an internal investigation found no evidence of systematic bias.<\/p>\n
But Facebook said it was making the changes to allow “our team to make fewer individual decisions about topics”.<\/p>\n