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Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Friday, 29 October 2021, 9:48 am | Facebook
Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be to bring the metaverse to life and help people connect, find communities and grow businesses. ... More >>
Facebook Extends Pacific Islands Education Campaign To Help Counter Health Misinformation
Tuesday, 29 June 2021, 10:34 am | Facebook
Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), ... More >>
Celebrate Matariki 2021 On Facebook And Instagram
Thursday, 24 June 2021, 3:31 pm | Facebook
Facebook is launching new digital activations for Matariki to promote a deeper understanding of its significance and how the period can be celebrated throughout Aotearoa. From today five Matariki-inspired GIFs and a profile frame, designed by Mahi Tahi Media, ... More >>
Facebook’s First Video Business Accelerator Launches With 12 Publishers From Across Asia Pacific Including Two From NZ
Wednesday, 2 June 2021, 3:56 pm | Facebook
2nd June 2021 - A brand new, tuition-free program aimed at teaching global newsrooms sustainable business strategies around video launches today. The Video Business Accelerator is a cohort-based and expert-led online training program to empower news organizations ... More >>
Facebook Launches Education Campaign To Help Samoan’s Identify False Health Misinformation
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 9:51 am | Facebook
Today, Facebook has launched a public education campaign to help people in Samoa learn how to identify and combat health misinformation. The campaign, which will run for five weeks in Samoa includes graphics and videos that will run in English ... More >>
Facebook Launches Prompt To Direct Papua New Guineans To Credible Information About COVID-19
Friday, 2 April 2021, 4:55 pm | Facebook
Today, Facebook launched a prompt near the top of News Feed directing people in Papua New Guinea to credible health information about COVID-19. The prompt provides Papua New Guineans on Facebook with COVID-19 prevention tips encouraging people to ... More >>
Facebook Prompt To Encourage Samoans To Get Out And Vote
Wednesday, 31 March 2021, 10:31 am | Facebook
With just over one week until Samoans head to the polls, Facebook will launch an Election Day Prompt encouraging voters to get out and vote ahead of the General Election on 9 April. The prompt will be available in Samoan and English and will encourage ... More >>
Combating Hate and Extremism
Wednesday, 18 September 2019, 12:14 pm | Facebook
Today, we’re sharing a series of updates and shifts that improve how we combat terrorists, violent extremist groups and hate organizations on Facebook and Instagram. These changes primarily impact our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy ... More >>
Protecting Facebook Live from Abuse, Investing Research
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 3:33 pm | Facebook
Following the horrific terrorist attacks in New Zealand, we’ve been reviewing what more we can do to limit our services from being used to cause harm or spread hate. As a direct result, starting today, people who have broken certain rules on Facebook ... More >>
Facebook announces ban on white nationalism and separatism
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 10:07 am | Facebook
Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram, which we’ll start enforcing next week. It’s clear that these concepts are deeply linked to organized hate groups and have ... More >>
Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 4:33 pm | Facebook
An Independent Assessment of the Human Rights Impact of Facebook in Myanmar By Alex Warofka, Product Policy Manager More >>
Facebook’s 2017 Year In Review
Wednesday, 6 December 2017, 1:25 pm | Facebook
Today we are announcing our 2017 Year in Review highlighting the top ways people came together on Facebook to support one another. More >>
News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
Friday, 16 December 2016, 3:17 pm | Facebook
A few weeks ago we previewed some of the things we’re working on to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes. We’re committed to doing our part and today we’d like to share some updates we’re testing and starting to roll out. More >>
Reminder: Finishing the Removal of an Old Search Setting
Friday, 11 October 2013, 11:46 am | Facebook
Last year we announced the removal of an old setting called “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” along with new controls for managing content on Facebook. More >>
