Trending topics are based on topics people are talking about and are curated by content specialists to ensure they meet community guidelines. Threads has launched a feature that helps it close the gap ...

Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.

Twitter has added popular trending topics to our sidebars, which is a good idea in theory -- but we reckon the feature is actually adding noise Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering ...

Twitter’s “trending” section, one of the key features of the influential social media platform, has been heavily manipulated by fake and hijacked accounts for at least the last half decade. New ...

Brian Feldman has long been fascinated by Twitter's efforts to contextualize trending topics with short descriptions. So he documented more than... Let's say you wanted to create a record of ...

Let's say you wanted to create a record of everything that happened in 2022, through the lens of social media. Where would you start? Brian Feldman began and ended in the same place: the sidebar on ...