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Facebook: Trending Topics Not Biased

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But will change its source for determining the list.

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Facebook says it will switch up the top 10 list of sites it uses to determine its trending topics, but claimed there was no political bias in the process. The changes are meant to give editors clearer guidelines for the process as well as more reviews for the procedure. The move comes after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with a host of conservatives to discuss a report that Facebook news editors were removing popular stories because of their right-leaning content.

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