Facebook is discontinuing its troubled “trending” section, the social network announced Friday.

The section, which launched in 2014, was designed to help people quickly find interesting topics on the social networking site. 

“So we’re exploring new ways to help people stay informed about timely, breaking news that matters to them, while making sure the news they see on Facebook is from trustworthy and quality sources,” she said.

The trending section had been a headache for the company. It drew notoriety in 2016 after a Gizmodo report detailed allegations that the trending team was suppressing conservative news. The backlash from conservatives led Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to extend an olive branch, holding a meeting at his company headquarters with more than two dozen conservative figures, including Glenn Beck, Dana Perino and Tucker Carlson.

Facebook eventually fired the editors on the trending team, replacing them with an automated process.

The company has also been reeling from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political consulting firm gained improper access to the names, “likes” and other personal data of 87 million Facebook users. Lawmakers in Congress and in Europe have raised the possibility of drafting new regulations to address Facebook’s privacy violations. Some critics have even called on antitrust officials to break the company up.