The list of "trending topics" on the right side of Twitter's home page is a coveted spot because millions of people see it. It often reflects what's hot in the news, from the death of Steve Jobs to ...

Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a fake news story about ...

An MIT team has developed an algorithm that can predict trending topics on Twitter an average of an hour and a half before they appear. Conventionally, a predictive program like this would be looking ...

An article in an online publication accusing Facebook of suppressing the Women's March in its trending topics caused a little tempest on social media over the weekend. Facebook says it did not ...

Humans will no longer be writing the news at the world’s largest social networking site. “Content Curators” (Facebook ’s title for the digital reporter role) were told to assemble at 4pm Friday at ...

The top link for Facebook's 1.7 billion users was a hoax, claiming that the World Trade Center was destroyed by bombs. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET ...

A new study has discovered a vulnerability in Twitter’s trending algorithm that makes the platform susceptible to astroturfing attacks. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.

Instagram has introduced a new feature called “Your Algorithm”, giving users more control over the videos that appear in their Reels feed. The update allows people to see which topics Instagram ...