Facebook To Burst News Bubbles And Make Trending Topics Uniform Across Regions

Since its implementation in 2013, Facebook’s news feed section has basically been a way for users to only see content that they want to see based on things that they liked or posted in the past. Now, the largest social media site in the world is going to change that by basically making news more uniform from region to region.

The newest changes will largely focus on the trending section, CNET reports, which basically decides which topics worthy of note are going to show up on the news feeds of users based on their preferences. After receiving considerable criticism with regards to the spread of fake news, which was largely spurred by the bubbles that individual users were living in, making the trending content more uniform increases the chance of the content having accurate information.

With over 1.79 billion users all over the world, it’s only to be expected that Facebook would have considerable influence over political discourse and movements. According to a survey done by the Pew Research, over 40 percent of Americans are getting their daily news from the social media site, and this heavily impacts the information that they base major decisions on.

By simply making sure that all of the information that users are getting in every region will be accurate and are not coming from fake news sources, Facebook is finally taking responsibility for its massive presence. This is something that the social media site has been trying to avoid since it was previously trying to maintain neutrality on the issue.

The changes pertaining to the Trending section will roll out in the US over the next few weeks, Quartz reports, but there has been no word on when it will become available to the rest of the world. Even with these changes, however, Facebook still wants to increase customization options for users in the future.