Category : Facebook

Sharing Poetry on Facebook to Help the Blind Community

After a difficult diagnosis, Dave S. turned fear into hope by sharing his poetry on Facebook as Dave Steele The Blind Poet. Dave has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a rare genetic disease that causes severe and permanent sight loss over time. When Dave l...

What to Know About Meta Quest’s v47 Software Update

We’re outlining some of the new features in the latest Meta Quest software update, including some that take advantage of the Meta Quest Pro headset’s enhanced capabilities. Updates for Meta Quest Pro Background Audio Playback: First, a much-re...

Economic Opportunities in the Metaverse: A Policy Approach

Just over a year ago, we shared our vision for the metaverse: a new era of the internet built on immersive and integrated experiences. Since then, we have shared some additional early thoughts around the benefits the metaverse will bring, the i...

We Create: Showcasing Indigenous Creativity to Support Small Businesses in Canada

The Indigenous economy in Canada is estimated to grow to $100 billion dollars by 2025, and Indigenous entrepreneurs rely on digital tools to grow their businesses and fuel this economy. Today, we’re launching the third installment of We Create...

Advancing the Next Generation of Creative Expression Through Mixed Reality

The next generation of art, culture and social interaction will be expressed through mediums that blend the physical and digital worlds — also known as mixed reality. And we envision the people leading this movement to be creatives from all bac...

5 Steps to Take Your Business to the Next Level

Owning a small business is hard work at any time, let alone right now. In fact, for many owners, the combined impact of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis probably adds up to the most challenging economic circumstances they’ve ever expe...

Accelerating India’s Contribution in Extended Reality Technologies

Today, we’re announcing that Meta will be supporting the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) with $1 million for the XR Open Source (XROS) fellowship program. Run by FICCI, XROS will support 100 Indian developers wor...

Supporting Small Businesses During the Festive Season

During the heat of the pandemic, difficult stories about small businesses experiencing lost sales and closures were front and centre. Yet despite the challenging circumstances, many of these small businesses remained optimistic that brighter da...

#FlexNaija Launches in Nigeria: A First-of-its-kind Mixed Reality Event for African Creators

We hosted top Nigerian creators across music, art, fashion, tech and comedy as part of our #FlexNaija campaign, a first-of-its-kind mixed reality event showcasing creativity and imagination as keys to the metaverse. Keys to the Metaverse The...

Strengthening Our Efforts Against Non-Consensual Intimate Images in Turkey with StopNCII.org, in Partnership with TKDF

We take strong precautions and measures against the spread of non-consensual intimate images on our platforms. Now, we are supporting the launch of StopNCII.org in Turkey with the cooperation of the Federation of Women’s Associations of Turkey....

Widely Viewed Content Report, Third Quarter 2022

Today, we’re publishing the Widely Viewed Content Report (WVCR) for the third quarter of 2022. This report was created to both provide more transparency about the most-viewed organic content in Feed on Facebook in the US and to hold ourselves a...

Transparency Report, First Half 2022

Today, we are releasing our latest Transparency Report for the first half of 2022. As always, we strive to be open about the ways we protect users’ privacy, security and access to information online. That’s why we publish biannual transparency...

Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Third Quarter 2022

Our security teams continue to focus on finding and removing deceptive campaigns around the world — whether they are foreign or domestic. Over the past five years, we’ve shared our findings about coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) and other...

Integrity and Transparency Reports, Third Quarter 2022

Today, we’re publishing our quarterly reports for the third quarter of 2022 and our biannual Transparency Reports for the first half of 2022. They include: These reports are all available in the Transparency Center. Here are the key highlights...

CICERO: AI That Can Collaborate and Negotiate With You

Today, we’re announcing CICERO, the first artificial intelligence (AI) agent to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. Diplomacy has been viewed as a nearly impossible challenge in AI because it requires players...