The phrase "alleged trend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a trend that is claimed or reported but not yet proven or verified.
Example: "The alleged trend in consumer behavior suggests a shift towards online shopping, although further research is needed to confirm this."
Alternatives: "purported trend" or "claimed trend".
Analysts say there is no evidence of that alleged trend, however, and a new report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that involuntary part-time work has actually fallen since the peak of the recession and the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
By Sunday the 20th of September, other media outlets had cited the original article, making the alleged "trend" even bigger.
For Teen Week, Broadly interviewed real-life teenagers about these alleged dangerous trends to see if they actually occur.
As well as reporting that Facebook discriminates against conservative sites, Gizmodo alleged that Facebook manipulates trends to ensure that weighty news appears on the list even when there's little conversation around it.
A Gizmodo report earlier this year alleged that Facebook's human Trend curators used their editorial freedom to suppress conservative trends.
Interestingly, among the reasons alleged to explain this decreasing trend, most authors mentioned regulatory actions [ 15, 16] which unfortunately cannot be fully applied to informal economy settings.
Trending Topics displays trending news headlines and story summaries in a sidebar next to the main news feed, and a former contractor who worked on Trending Topics has alleged that conservative news topics and outlets were often blocked from appearing.
Gizmodo's original report alleged that staff tampered with trending topic stories and were told to include stories published by the BBC, CNN and other mainstream news organisations ahead of smaller news sites.
In May a member of the trending news team alleged that editors were suppressing conservative news.
A previous report by Gizmodo alleged that the journalists who work on the trending product were never explicitly told to avoid outlets like Breitbart, The Blaze or World Star Hip Hop, but would regularly avoid the sites anyway.
Facebook came under scrutiny earlier this year after unnamed sources in a Gizmodo story alleged that Facebook was manipulating which articles it displayed in "Trending Topics" to stifle conservative view points.
