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06-02-2018, 05:56 PM
News that Facebook killed 'Trending' is...trending
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It's a full circle moment for all of us.
On Friday, Facebook announced (https://mashable.com/2018/06/01/facebook-kills-trending-news/) that it was killing its embattled "Trending" news section.*
SEE ALSO: I wrote the Facebook report Ted Cruz can’t stop talking about. He’s getting it all wrong. (https://mashable.com/2018/04/12/ted-cruz-facebook/)
Then, mere *hours* later, the tolling of the death knell received an appropriate tribute: the news started Trending on Facebook, in the trending section itself. *LE SIGH*
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R.I.P.
Image: screenshot: rachel kraus/facebook
Facebook said in a statement that it was scuttling the product because it did not drive a significant amount of traffic, nor garner much user engagement. But Facebook, via its Trending widget, has also come under fire for accusations of liberal bias and conservative news suppression — a narrative that Facebook hasn't been able to escape since Mashable's own Michael Nuñez broke that story (https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006) at Gizmodo in 2016. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/06/01/facebook-trending-death-is-trending/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (https://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Irony (https://mashable.com/category/irony/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook Trending (https://mashable.com/category/facebook-trending/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (https://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9nuUqK2Jg-w
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It's a full circle moment for all of us.
On Friday, Facebook announced (https://mashable.com/2018/06/01/facebook-kills-trending-news/) that it was killing its embattled "Trending" news section.*
SEE ALSO: I wrote the Facebook report Ted Cruz can’t stop talking about. He’s getting it all wrong. (https://mashable.com/2018/04/12/ted-cruz-facebook/)
Then, mere *hours* later, the tolling of the death knell received an appropriate tribute: the news started Trending on Facebook, in the trending section itself. *LE SIGH*
https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/nxZABXXMBgZserAH7llKHDQ-T34=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F784445%2F7daa2b2f-f261-4985-b715-f601f1237834.png
R.I.P.
Image: screenshot: rachel kraus/facebook
Facebook said in a statement that it was scuttling the product because it did not drive a significant amount of traffic, nor garner much user engagement. But Facebook, via its Trending widget, has also come under fire for accusations of liberal bias and conservative news suppression — a narrative that Facebook hasn't been able to escape since Mashable's own Michael Nuñez broke that story (https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006) at Gizmodo in 2016. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/06/01/facebook-trending-death-is-trending/)
More about Facebook (https://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mark Zuckerberg (https://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Irony (https://mashable.com/category/irony/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Facebook Trending (https://mashable.com/category/facebook-trending/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Tech (https://mashable.com/tech/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/9nuUqK2Jg-w