Facebook got rid of the human curators for their “trending news” section and then, predictably, had the algorithm shit the bed and surface a fake story:
Facebook cut its Trending Topics team on Friday in favor of employing algorithms to surface news stories on the social networking platform.
Then on Sunday a fake story about Megyn Kelly getting fired by Fox for being a secret liberal showed up among the Trending Topics after getting hundreds of thousands of likes.
The company didn’t take the story down until Monday morning.