This past year was one of renewed human connection and community for many people around the world. This theme carried over to open source work at Meta, as contributors, users and organizations congregated to further the impact of open source.

From time to time, Meta invites academics to propose research in specific areas that align with our mission of building community and bringing the world closer together.

See how Chad uses Facebook to deliver cheer during the holiday season.
The post Spreading Joy During the Holidays Using Facebook appeared first on Meta.

WhatsApp's Business Management API gives you access to metrics and analytics about your WhatsApp Business Account (WABA). You can get two types of data about your account

We’re sharing details on Meta Reality, our unique mixed reality system, and Infinite Display, our custom-built optical stack.
The post Meta’s Progress in Augmented and Virtual Reality appeared first on Meta.

Since launching in 2020, Reels has changed the way people consume and create content on Instagram and Facebook. Our report highlights the topics, trends and moments that entertained India in 2022.
The post ‘Reels in Review’ – Some of 2022’s Top Trends on Reels In India appeared first on Meta.

In August, Meta launched the 2022 People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy request for proposals (RFP). Today, it is my sincere honor to announce the winners...

Following the announcement of Reels API for Facebook, today we are introducing Reels metrics to the Video Insights API. We have heard feedback from our developer community about the value of including Reels metrics in the API experience. We are excited...

We’re sharing updates on how we protect people's online accounts and security.
The post Designing Account Security Across Our Apps appeared first on Meta.

We're sharing insights that have stood out to us this year as we look back at our 200-plus CIB enforcements.
The post Recapping Our 2022 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Enforcements appeared first on Meta.

We’re sharing a number of updates on our work to protect people globally from online threats.
The post Protecting People From Online Threats In 2022 appeared first on Meta.

We're sharing updates from our bug bounty program this year, including new payout guidelines.
The post Looking Back at Our Bug Bounty Program in 2022 appeared first on Meta.

Researchers share personal, behind-the-scenes stories about their experience at Meta.

We launched several improvements to WhatsApp this year to make staying in touch more seamless than ever.
The post Improved Calling Features on WhatsApp appeared first on Meta.

In February 2022, Reality Labs Research launched the Controls That Matter and Considering Everyone: High-Realism VR Avatars in Virtual Work Settings request for proposals (RFP).

We're introducing new sharing features on Instagram, including a new way to share your thoughts using just text and emojis.
The post New Sharing Features on Instagram: Notes, Group Profiles and More appeared first on Meta.

We’re launching a new free tool to help platforms identify and remove violating content at scale.
The post Meta Launches New Content Moderation Tool as It Takes Chair of Counter-Terrorism NGO appeared first on Meta.

This month, we’re spotlighting Yufei Ding, an assistant professor in computer science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. ACS enhances privacy and security while also being compute-conscious. By open-sourcing and fostering a community for ACS, we believe we can accelerate the pace of innovation in de-identified authentication. Data minimization — collecting the [...]
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Learn how to create, update, fetch, and delete QR codes and short links with the WhatsApp Business Platform using the Cloud API, hosted by Meta.

Multi-Objective Optimization in Ax enables efficient exploration of tradeoffs (e.g. between model performance and model size or latency) in Neural Architecture Search.

We have updated Section 7 of the Developer Policies effective immediately. No change is required from the developers’ end, only awareness about these changes.

With the goal of making Meta’s app creation process easier for developers to create and customize their apps, we are announcing the rollout of an updated process using App Use Cases instead of the former product-focused process

This month, we’re spotlighting Jonathan Lazar, a professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) College of Information Studies.

Integrating WhatsApp into your apps requires authentication. Here are some basic guidelines on auth tokens and access to get started.

In a paper published in October 2022 — “DreamShard: Generalizable embedding table placement for recommender systems” — we focus on embedding table sharding, or how to place the...

UPM is our internal standalone library to perform static analysis of SQL code and enhance SQL authoring.  UPM takes SQL code as input and represents it as a data structure called a semantic tree. Infrastructure teams at Meta leverage UPM to build SQL linters, catch user mistakes in SQL code, and perform data lineage analysis [...]
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We now allow for ads in Instagram Explore home via the Instagram Marketing API. This new ads placement will be available on all current Marketing API versions, and does not require an upgrade.

In this blog post, we explain Presto. Presto is a disaggregated SQL query engine originally designed to replace Apache Hive and achieve scalable interactive queries across massive data sets from different sources. If you're interested in learning about...

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Take a high-level look at message, status, and error webhooks and explore ways you can use them to expand your application's functionality.