Tag: Facebook
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No, Your News Feed Is Not Limited to Posts From 26 Friends
Facebook Newsroom – 2.9.19 (2.6.19) Copy-and-paste memes — those blocks of text posted on message boards, forwarded in emails and shared via social media — are as old as the internet. A recent example started popping up in late 2017 and continues to see the occasional bump in shares. This meme claims that Facebook’s “new…
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Hard Questions: What Is Facebook Doing to Address the Challenges It Faces?
Facebook Newsroom – 2.8.19 (2.4.19) The most frequently asked questions we receive are about Facebook’s efforts to stop the spread of misinformation, prevent election interference, and protect people’s privacy. Read more: Hard Questions: What Is Facebook Doing to Address the Challenges It Faces?
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Expanding Our Efforts to Protect Elections in 2019
Facebook Newsroom – 1.29.19 (1.28.19) Over the past two years, we have made massive investments to help protect the integrity of elections — not only addressing threats we’ve seen on our platform in the past, but also anticipating new challenges and responding to new risks. Read more: Expanding Our Efforts to Protect Elections in 2019
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia
Facebook Newsroom – 1.17.19 Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. The two operations we found originated in Russia, and one was active in a variety of countries while the other was specific to Ukraine. We didn’t find any links between these operations, but they used…
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Giving People New Ways to Commemorate Moments on Facebook
Facebook Newsroom – 12.12.18 Life events on Facebook are a way to share, celebrate and come together around your most important milestones with friends and family. Just as they are in real life, life events on Facebook are distinguished from other everyday moments. To ensure these moments stand out even more, we’re redesigning this feature…
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A New Way to Share Gift Ideas on Facebook
Facebook Newsroom – 12.5.18 (12.4.18) The holiday season is in full swing, and people are turning to Facebook to find and buy gifts. To help you send gift ideas more easily, we’re introducing the ability for people to share a collection of content saved on Facebook with specific friends and family. Read more: A New…
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How Facebook Search Works, in Under Two Minutes
Facebook Newsroom – 12.3.18 (11.30.18) We’ve explored a variety of hard topics on Inside Feed, such as our fight against false newsand how we’re working to prevent election interference. These aren’t the only areas where we want to get to the bottom of how our products work. Search functionality is a key topic of conversation within the…
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Our Continued Commitment to Transparency
Facebook Newsroom – 11.19.18 (11.15.18) Maintaining transparency around the nature and extent of the government requests we receive for user data, and how we make decisions about what content stays up or what comes down on Facebook, is really important to us. Each half we issue a Transparency Report to share what we’ve seen in…
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More Information About Last Week’s Takedowns
Facebook Newsroom – 11.15.18 (11.13.18) Over the last year, we have been much more proactive in finding and removing inauthentic behavior, including from foreign actors. To stay ahead, we need to work closely with government, the security community and other tech companies. Last week’s takedowns were a good example of that work in action. Read…
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Helping People Find and Develop their Careers
Facebook Newsroom – 11.14.18 (11.13.18) Earlier this year, we made a pledge to train 1 million US business owners and equip more people with the digital skills they need to compete in the modern workplace. Today we’re sharing updates about new tools and resources to further this commitment, helping people access new career opportunities. Read more: Helping…