One of our goals over the next decade is to build stronger privacy protections for everyone who uses our apps…
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Whether it’s iterating on Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm or delivering the most relevant ads to users, we are constantly exploring new features to help improve our machine learning (ML) models. Every time we add new features, we create a challenging data engineering problem that requires us to think strategically about the choices we make. [...]
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After an injury that cut her gymnastics career short, Lori found a community of likeminded adult gymnasts on Facebook.
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Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
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The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In today’s blog, we will cover the module cm...

We're defaulting young people into private accounts, limiting how advertisers reach them and making it harder for suspicious accounts to find them.
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We’re using AI to find and remove underaged accounts, and developing new ways to verify people’s ages.
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Today is the first day of the Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference, an event we've helped organize to support underrepresented inventors.
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This work was a collaboration with Martin Jankowiak (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT). What the research is: Sparse axis-aligned…
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We’re rolling out features across our apps to help people cheer on their teams during the Tokyo Games.
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Tracy M.G., a mom of four with congenital glaucoma, created the Facebook group Mommies with Guides to allow blind parents to celebrate their unique relationships.
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Protecting the privacy of the people and businesses using our technologies is an integral part of our mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

For today’s interview, we have Eric Kuecks who is a Production Engineer on the Core Data Staging team at Facebook. The Core Data Staging team works on integration testing for the cache and database stack at Facebook. While working on this team, Eric ha...

You can now decide how much sensitive content you see in Explore on Instagram.
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The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In today’s blog, we will cover the trait Any...

We’re introducing the ability to join a group call, even after it’s started, with joinable calls on WhatsApp.
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We're sharing three tips for creating content and showing you how Facebook Business Suite can make posting content easier for your business, every step of the way.

Machine Learning (ML) researchers who would like to work with data that must be encrypted, either for legal reasons or to ensure privacy, historically have had very limited tools for building secure ML systems.

Support for COVID-19 vaccines is high on Facebook and growing.
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When the pandemic forced Tammy to shut down her trolley tour business, she found a 1970s ice cream truck she found on Facebook Marketplace.
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Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
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We're publishing our first quarterly update on the Oversight Board, sharing information about cases Facebook referred to the board and our progress implementing the board's recommendations.
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