Category : Social Media

Helping Each Other Book Vaccine Appointments

Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is our best bet at coming back together safely. Every day, more vaccine appointments become available in the US, and people are coming together on Facebook to help each other get vaccinated. That starts with bookin...

AI Predicts Effective Drug Combinations to Fight Complex Diseases Faster

Finding new ways to repurpose or combine existing drugs has proved to be a powerful tool to treat complex diseases. Drugs used to treat one type of cancer, for instance, have effectively strengthened treatments for other cancer cells. Complex maligna...

How We Combat Scraping

Last week, we shared more details about a public database containing information about people on Facebook that appeared online and generated a lot of conversation around data scraping. Given the fact that similar stories have emerged since then about...

Protecting People From Domain Abuse

This week, we filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania against New Ventures Services Corp. (NVSC), a company that has repeatedly engaged in cybersquatting activities. NVSC registered hundreds of lookalike domain names that could be used to deceive people by i...

Taking Action Together on Earth Day

This Earth Day, Facebook is empowering people to get informed and take action on climate change. We are also marking a milestone as our global operations are now supported by 100% renewable energy. To better understand people’s perspectives towards c...

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Reinforces the Need for Internet Inclusion

The COVID-19 pandemic heightened demand for critical internet access and people not yet connected are being left further behind. The fifth edition of the Inclusive Internet Index, released today, depicts an internet that is more accessible and afford...

Users Can Now Appeal Content Left Up on Facebook or Instagram to the Oversight Board

Starting today, people who use Facebook and Instagram now have the ability to appeal other people’s content that has been left up to the Oversight Board. Since October 2020, if content was removed from Facebook or Instagram and a user disagreed with...

Connecting People in the US With State COVID-19 Vaccine Information

Now that states in the US are opening COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all adults, Facebook is helping connect people with state-specific information from local health departments about COVID-19 vaccines and how people can get vaccinated. To do this,...

As Small Businesses Continue to Struggle Globally, Women and Minority-Led Ones Are Hardest Hit

Small businesses around the world have struggled since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago. While the roll-out of vaccines gives a reason to be hopeful, our latest Global State of Small Business Report is a timely reminder that many are st...

Bringing Zoom and More Features to Portal

Physical distance shouldn’t limit our ability to connect with other people. That’s why Facebook built Portal — a smart, hands-free video calling device with high-fidelity sound and an AI-powered Smart Camera to keep your conversation in focus. In add...

The Facts on News Reports About Facebook Data

On April 3, Business Insider published a story saying that information from more than 530 million Facebook users had been made publicly available in an unsecured database. We have teams dedicated to addressing these kinds of issues and understand the...

March 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report

We’re constantly working to find and stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate across our apps. The Purpose of This Report Over the past three and a half years, we’ve shared our findings about coordinated inauthentic behavior w...

Privacy Conversations: Jules Polonetsky Explains the Importance of Global Data Flows

In the third episode of our Privacy Conversations series, Facebook’s Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer for Public Policy, Erin Egan, sits down with Jules Polonetsky, CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). They discuss the analysis FPF recen...

Celebrating the #MonthofGood

As we begin another Ramadan in the midst of COVID-19, Muslims around the world are honoring classic traditions in new ways by gathering virtually and sharing celebrations online. Last year, our community exchanged more than 20 million “Happy Ramadan”...

Encourage Your Friends to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine

Update on April 6, 2021 at 3:10PM PT: Today, we are continuing our global expansion of COVID-19 vaccine profile frames on Facebook. We’re working with UNICEF to launch the frames in eight new countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Ni...