Facebook's trending topics controversy is now a Facebook trending topic
The social media giant lists its own curated news links controversy as a newsworthy topic.
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Facebook's curated list of trending news topics has been embroiled in controversy this week, thanks to allegations that conservative news stories and topics were filtered out. Now, the story about Facebook's trending topics section is itself being listed as a top, you guessed it, trending topic on Facebook.
As of this morning, it's the top of the list for political topics, and second place on the science and technology section, as first noted by Yahoo Finance managing editor Sam Ro on Twitter.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a query about the topic's placement.
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