Facebook redesigns Trending Topics on mobile to show more news sources
Today, Facebook announced an update to its Trending Topics section that will make the list of news stories easier to parse on mobile with a more diverse list of sources. Now, when you click on a news topic from the search bar on an iPhone, you’ll get multiple stories from different outlets that can be swiped through in a carousel format, as well as the standard posts from friends and prominent celebrity and public figure pages you follow. The company plans to roll the redesign out to Android and desktop soon.
Facebook isn’t deciding which publications will be shown. The company spent a healthy chunk of last year tweaking Trending Topics after a controversy over liberal bias,…
