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Facebook is turning its news section almost entirely over to the machines.

Facebook has changed Trending Topics to rely on algorithms to surface and sort news, the company announced on Friday, just months after the section was the center of controversy over alleged editor bias.

The move "will make the product more automated and will no longer require people inside Facebook to write descriptions for trending topics," the company noted in a blog post.

The change comes after the company was alleged to have employed editors in Trending that had discriminated against conservative news outlets. The allegations were serious enough that CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with conservative leaders to assure them that the company was not biased against conservative-leaning outlets. Read more...

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