No. Absolutely not. That&#x27;s not what is happening at all. I know. I worked on FB trending from the algorithmic side.<p>The types of trending topics that are blacklisted tend to be low quality trends. Say #FollowFriday, or take examples from the current Twitter trends, #mondaymotivation, #MondayMorning, #DressAFilm, or #MondayBlogs.<p>They also will blacklist a trend when it&#x27;s a duplicate of another trend say #GoodWifeFarewll vs #TheGoodWife. In fact, they&#x27;d probably try to combine those two if the clustering algorithm failed, and then relabel it &quot;The Good Wife&quot; since it undoubtedly corresponds to a FB page.<p>The manipulation of the candidate set of trends is there because the trending algorithm and the clustering algorithm is too noisy to publicly surface. The trends you actually see are algorithmically chosen based on your behavior.