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Facebook's Trending Topics Relies On Human Editors, Leaked Documents Show

Facebook relies heavily on human editors to determine which stories to show in its "trending" topics, according to documents leaked to the Guardian. Facebook "backed away from a pure-algorithm approach in 2014 after criticism that it had not included enough coverage of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, in users’ feeds," the Guardian says.

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