Following tests of Twitter-style Trending Topics on the web and mobile in August, Facebook today officially launches a redesigned “Trending” section on its web homepage’s sidebar in the US, UK, Canada ...

Communicating with expertise and authority is a top priority and there’s no better starting point than outlining your content with a topic taxonomy as a way for creating content that has the best ...

Facebook is a little closer to completely automating its trending topics feature. On Friday, the company announced that it would no longer have employees write short descriptions for each trending ...

Facebook has removed descriptions from Trending topics. The announcement comes months after being criticized for having an anti-conservative bias. Since Facebook Trending launched in 2014, you would ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In my first post about topic models, I discussed what topic models are, how they ...

The field of turbulence theory continues to grapple with profound foundational questions despite extensive progress over recent decades. Central challenges ...

As many newsrooms face declines in revenues and staffing, one difficult choice to make is where to focus coverage and resources. This study asked Americans about the weight of 11 different local news ...