Facebook will be removing the "trending stories" section of its news feed next week, a feature that proved controversial in the spread of inaccurate and offensive news on Facebook.
The trending section promoted popular news articles and topics and was displayed prominently on the home page of Facebook’s website. It was also available on the Facebook app.
Facebook said that “over time people found the product to be less and less useful”. It said that its trending section accounted for less than 1.5pc of clicks to news articles from Facebook.
Facebook’s trending section was released in 2014 and has been a source of controversy for the social network.