SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said it is further automating its “trending” stories feature, a move that will scale back human input to prevent personal bias from influencing which stories get highlighted.

The social media giant will rely more heavily on an algorithm to operate the feature -- which lists what news or events are hot topics -- no longer requiring people to write descriptions, according to a Facebook blog post.

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