Category : Social Media

New Ways to Connect With Businesses on WhatsApp

As businesses across the world prepare to re-open and expand online, people need easy ways to get in touch with businesses to ask questions, get information or find something they might like to buy. Today we support more than 50 million WhatsAp...

Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

Today, we removed four separate networks for violating our policy against foreign interference and coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB). These networks originated in Canada and Ecuador, Brazil, Ukraine, and the United States. In each case, t...

A Closer Look at Facebook’s Commitment to Sustainability

Today we’re releasing our first Sustainability Report, which provides a closer look at our sustainability progress in 2019, as well as our broader, ongoing commitment to address climate change. The report shows we’ve made great progress toward...

Making Progress on Civil Rights – But Still a Long Way to Go

Today, Facebook’s third civil rights audit report is being published — bringing to a close an independent two-year review of our policies and practices by noted civil liberties and civil rights expert Laura W. Murphy and Megan Cacace, partner i...

Facebook Connectivity Investments to Deliver Over $200 Billion in Economic Benefits

Reports Estimate the 5-Year Impact of Facebook’s Infrastructure in LATAM, ASEAN and Sub-Saharan Africa The importance of reliable, affordable internet connectivity has become more apparent to many people adapting to new ways of life during the...

Improving Data Limits for Infrequently Used Apps, Simplifying Platform Terms and Developer Policies

Privacy Matters is a series that takes a closer look at changes we’ve made to improve our privacy approach and protect people’s information. Developers play an important role in protecting people’s data, just like everyone at Facebook. As part...

Introducing Animated Stickers, QR Codes and More

Today we’re announcing new WhatsApp features rolling out over the next few weeks: Animated Stickers: Stickers are one of the fastest growing ways people communicate on WhatsApp, with billions sent every day. We are rolling out new animated sti...

Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate

This piece originally ran in AdAge. When society is divided and tensions run high, those divisions play out on social media. Platforms like Facebook hold up a mirror to society — with more than 3 billion people using Facebook’s apps every month...

Banning a Violent Network in the US

SummaryToday we are designating a violent US-based anti-government network as a dangerous organization and banning it from our platform. This network uses the term boogaloo but is distinct from the broader and loosely-affiliated boogaloo moveme...

Prioritizing Original News Reporting on Facebook

When we ask people what kind of news they want to see on Facebook, they continually tell us they want news stories that are credible and informative. Today, we’re updating the way news stories are ranked in News Feed to prioritize original repo...

Meeting the Unique Challenges of the 2020 Elections

Today Mark Zuckerberg shared an update on the work we’re doing to prepare for the 2020 US elections and fight against racial injustice, much of which is a direct result of our civil rights audit.

Providing People With Additional Context About Content They Share

When we ask people what kind of news they want to see on Facebook, they continually tell us they want information that is timely and credible. That’s why in 2018, we added the context button, which provides information about the sources of arti...

New EU Report Finds Progress Fighting Hate Speech

We don’t allow hate speech on Facebook. Over the past few years, we’ve invested in new technologies and improved our processes to find and remove hate speech from our platform. And we produce a transparency report every six months to share our...

Supporting Black and Diverse Communities

The past few weeks have compelled us to confront the reality of violence and injustice which members of the Black community face on a daily basis. We have shared words of support for our friends, colleagues and communities. We need to take acti...

Fighting Platform Abuse, Simplifying Privacy in Groups, and Protecting Information While Sharing Data

This is the first post in a new series about privacy improvements we’ve made. As I explained in the introduction to our Privacy Matters page, our privacy work is never finished, and we’re committed to communicating transparently about the steps...