Meta Platforms, Inc.
Aggregating news events on online social networks

Abstract:

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of posts that includes a number of posts of the online social network posted within a first timeframe. In particular embodiments, each post is associated with one or more topics of a number of topics of the online social network. The method also includes determining a trending topic from the plurality of topics of the online social network; and generating a news-event object associated with the trending topic. In particular embodiments, the news-event object includes a seed post from the first set of posts and a tagging-algorithm for identifying posts matching the trending topic. The method also includes identifying, by the tagging-algorithm, one or more posts from the first set of posts that match the trending topic; and generating one or more search-results modules. In particular embodiments, each search-results module includes one or more search results.