IDG Contributor Network: Why the Facebook Trending Topics controversy won’t go away

Facebook is still in the deep stuff.

The massive social media juggernaut, now with over 1.5B active users, recently met with conservative news channel personalities after it was discovered that a group of contractors may have censored some of the topics you see on the right hand panel. Many people (including myself) use those links as a quick check on what is happening in the world, and we trust that they are generated automatically based on interest level and some sort of AI-driven algorithm.

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