Changes are coming on Facebook. The social network has announced through a blog in the Newsroom that they will remove the trending section next week. This section was the one that helped users to discover current issues. But next week it will become part of the past, four years after it was posted on the website.
One of the reasons is that Facebook itself considers that its usefulness has been decreasing. After their own research, they have seen that this tool made less and less sense. For this reason, they make the decision to eliminate it completely.
Although the social network has not mentioned the many controversies and criticisms that have been made to the trends section over the years. Since it has become clear that the company did not use the proper filters, so it was full of fake news. In addition to giving more prominence to some content over others.
So there have been a lot of problems with this trending section on Facebook. So in a few days it will become part of the history of the social network. What is not known at the moment is what will arrive in its place. The social network has said that the news will continue to be of great importance.
But at the moment they have not revealed which tools are going to replace trends. Although Facebook claims to be already developing new tools in this regard. So that users can see news and with a greater effort to prevent false content from sneaking in.
Although we do not know when this trend surrogate will arrive on Facebook. We may have to wait a few months yet. So we will be attentive to the plans of the social network in this regard. And if their plans to fight fake news really work.