trends

 Trends  is a feature on social media silos that shows the some of the most popular hashtags (AKA Trending hashtags ), links, news articles, words, or phrases that are being used or cited in posts, and have been criticized on Facebook &amp; Twitter for being manipulated by bots and/or showing conspiracy theories at the top.

Aaron Parecki
shows a list of "top posts" on monthly archive pages. The posts are ranked by a combination of reposts, likes and replies.


 * https://aaronparecki.com/2021/03

Facebook
(stub) Facebook

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 * Facebook trends show that Elon Musk has deleted Facebook pages for SpaceX and Tesla FB-musk.jpg

Twitter
(stub) Twitter

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State Level Actor Manipulation
Facebook and Twitter have been criticized for not recognizing or identifying when trending hashtags may be the result of bot accounts run by state level actors (e.g. Russia) artificially inflating the popularity of particular politically motivated hashtags.
 * 2018-01-31 Democrats lashed Facebook and Twitter for not fully investigating if Russian bots spread the #ReleasetheMemo campaign

Showing Conspiracy Theories First
Facebook has been criticized for showing conspiracy theories at the top of their "People Are Saying" for news articles in their Trending News section.


 * 2018-01-31: Facebook Pushes ‘False Flag’ Amtrak Conspiracies in Trending Section


 * 2018-01-31: from: https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/958786714562105345

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Brainstorming
Things you could include on an IndieWeb site's "trending" page:


 * Recent posts with a lot of responses
 * List of recently/frequently used tags or keywords