Business Insider - Facebook has changed some of its internal guidelines for choosing which stories appear in its "Trending" topics section, following accusations of political bias. For example, it will no longer rely on a list of external websites to decide whether a topic surfaced by its algorithm is important. Facebook launched an investigation after several Gizmodo reports earlier this month sparked widespread controversy by alleging that former news "curators" routinely omitted articles from conservative news sources in the Trending section on the right side of its main News Feed. Although the company's investigation revealed no evidence of the systematic bias described in the reports, Facebook says it couldn't "fully exclude" the possibility of that some of its curators exhibited unintentional bias or isolated improper actions. So, it decided to make a number of changes to minimize the risk of human judgment interfering. Here are the tweaks Facebook made to its rules, via its letter to Senate
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