Category : Facebook

BlenderBot 3: An AI Chatbot That Improves Through Conversation

To build artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can interact with people in smarter, safer and more useful ways, we need to teach them to adapt to our needs. Today, we’re releasing BlenderBot 3, our state-of-the-art conversational agent that...

Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report, Second Quarter 2022

Today, we’re sharing our second quarterly adversarial threat report that provides insight into the risks we see worldwide and across multiple policy violations. The report marks nearly five years since we began publicly sharing our threat resea...

New Research on the Relationship Between Facebook Friendships and Economic Opportunity

In 2018, a team of researchers, led by economist Raj Chetty, approached Meta with a question: Can a person’s social network help lift them out of poverty? Chetty and his team at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights are known for their groundbreaking...

Bringing AR and VR to the France 2023 Rugby Tour

On July 21, our Meta Official Supplier teams boarded the France 2023 Rugby World Cup train at the Lille Flandres station, before setting off on its 100-day journey across France. The four-car exhibition-train gives people the opportunity to lea...

Using Instagram to Advocate for Patients With Medical Debt

After experiencing the financial burden that accompanied a medical crisis, Jared W. founded Dollar For, a nonprofit that advocates for patients with overwhelming medical expenses. He uses Instagram to educate his followers and has helped crush...

The FTC’s Attempt to Block Meta’s Acquisition of Within Is Wrong on the Facts and the Law

Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a lawsuit seeking to block Meta’s planned acquisition of Within, the company behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The FTC’s case is based on ideology and speculation, not evidence. The idea th...

Meta Asks Oversight Board to Advise on COVID-19 Misinformation Policies

Meta is asking the Oversight Board for advice on whether measures to address dangerous COVID-19 misinformation, introduced in extraordinary circumstances at the onset of the pandemic, should remain in place as many, though not all, countries ar...

Expanding Our Third-Party Fact Checking Program in India

Today, we are expanding our third-party fact-checking program in India to include NewsMeter, a fact checker primarily focused on the southern states in the country. The partnership will help connect people to accurate and verified information,...

Putting People First: Protecting Privacy and Integrity

At Meta, we often talk about how we use data to maintain and improve the integrity of our technologies. To help explain what we mean by that, we’ve published a new white paper that explains some of the ways we employ user data to create a posit...

Music Revenue Sharing: A New Way For Creators to Earn Money Through Facebook Videos

Today, we’re introducing Music Revenue Sharing on Facebook, making it easier for creators to monetize their videos that use licensed music from popular and emerging artists like Post Malone, Tove Lo, Grupo La Cumbia, Leah Kate, Bicep and more....

Economic Recovery Programme Launched to Support SMBs in Ukraine

Today we are launching a training hub that offers diverse educational resources to SMBs across Ukraine. The hub includes Blueprint courses, Meta Boost training platform and SMB success stories. Through the new hub, a variety of free workshops,...

Revealing the Winners of Our First-Ever Global Spark AR Challenge in the Middle East

We’re revealing the 20 winners of the Middle East and North Africa’s first-ever Spark AR challenge, in collaboration with the UAE National Program for Coders, the Museum of the Future and Lenslist. Emirates Airline and Accenture served as the c...

Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook

Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’re making it easier for you to control what content you see and discover on Facebook. We’re introducing Feeds, a new tab that lets you easily see the most recent posts from your friends, Pages and groups. You...

Introducing New Ways to Collaborate and Create With Reels

Today, we’re announcing new features to Instagram that make it more fun and easy to collaborate, create and share reels. More Ways to Collaborate With Enhanced Remix Features We’re expanding our tools for Remix to help enhance the way you tell...

Digital Advertising’s Role in Driving Long-Term Brand Growth

Brand-building is critical to the long term success of business performance. People are increasingly spending more time on digital channels; in fact, according to Global Web Index, consumers spend 72% of their media time on digital channels. Wi...