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We're introducing “Why am I seeing this post?” to help you better understand and more easily control what you see from friends, Pages and Groups in your News Feed.

The design thinking behind our new feature — “Why am I seeing this post?”

I believe we need new regulation in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.

We're rolling out an improved Ad Library that brings greater transparency to all ads on our platforms.

In the run up to the European Parliamentary Elections in May, we are making big changes to the way ads with political content work on Facebook.

Today we removed 200 Pages, Groups and accounts in the Philippines that were misleading others about who they were and what they were doing.

Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram.

Today the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Facebook Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun, along with Yoshua Bengio (MILA…

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An Op-Ed by Facebook’s Ime Archibong on Africa's Oversight Board workshop.

We've removed Pages, Groups and accounts connected to Iran, Russia, Macedonia and Kosovo.

We recently named the winners of our Mechanism Design for Social Good research awards. Inspired by an independent organization, the Mechanism Design for Social Good, this award targets the unique opportunities to design new mechanisms on top of mobile devices and social networks — mechanisms that lead to meaningful connections that otherwise would not have [...]

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Facebook Mechanism Design for Social Good research awards. In this request…

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WHAT’S NEW: A new Python-based project called Python Test Runner (ptr), that allows developers to run Python unit test suites. The main difference between ptr and existing test runners is that ptr crawls a repository to find Python projects with unit tests defined in their setup files. It then runs each suite in parallel with [...]

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Pedro Canahuati, VP Engineering, Security and Privacy As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems. This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We […]

We want to share more on how our products were used during this tragedy and how we can improve going forward.

As part of our celebration of International Women's Day, we spoke to Facebook's new Chief Marketing Office Antonio Lucio about advocating for gender equality and the people in his life who inspire him.

Built on the Rift Platform, Rift S gives gamers and tech enthusiasts access to the most immersive content that VR has to offer.

There's a long history of discrimination in the areas of housing, employment and credit, and this harmful behavior should not happen through Facebook ads.

We remain shocked and saddened by this tragedy and are committed to countering hate speech and the threat of terrorism online.

Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is using groundbreaking 3D capture technology and AI systems to create lifelike virtual avatars. The technology could one day make social connections in virtual reality as natural and common as those in the real world. Facebook has worked on virtual avatars for several years. At F8 2016, Facebook Chief Technology Officer [...]

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