We’re making it easier for people to discover Black-owned businesses directly on Instagram. Businesses based in the US with Shops on Instagram will now be able to designate as Black-owned and display a “Black-owned” label. In the last year, the Instagram community has come together in support of Black-owned businesses, and businesses have found creative…
As part of our ongoing efforts to keep people safe and combat abuse of our ad platform, we filed two separate legal actions today against the perpetrators of online scams who violated our Terms and Advertising Policies. In the first case, the defendants are a California marketing company and its agents responsible for a bait-and-switch…
In recent years, there has been a growing number of independent writers who are making a living by connecting directly with their readers. That’s why we’re launching Bulletin, a set of publishing and subscription tools to support creators in the US. And today, we’re sharing Bulletin’s first wave of writers. Through Bulletin, we want to…
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Sean Snyder and Adrian Stevens grew up dancing at powwows, but they were disqualified from a Sweetheart Special dance that required participating pairs to consist of a male and a female. The couple, which identifies as Two Spirit and non-binary, became determined to increase visibility and representation of Two-Spirit relations. By being open about their…
Shops is expanding to WhatsApp and Marketplace Shops ads solutions will help businesses personalize the shopping journey New technologies like Instagram visual search and AR Dynamic Ads will power the future of shopping. Today, we’re announcing new ways to shop across our apps, along with solutions for businesses to personalize shopping with ads, and…
Facebook AI is on a quest to build the world’s largest shoppable social media platform, where billions of items can be bought and sold in one place. As a key milestone toward this goal, we’re sharing details on how we’ve improved and expanded GrokNet, our breakthrough product recognition system. Now, it’s powering new applications on…
Today, we released our 2020 Sustainability Report, showing the progress we made on our sustainability goals. We’re proud that we met our goals of reaching net zero emissions and 100% renewable energy for our global operations. We also reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 94% from 2017 levels, exceeding our goal of a 75% reduction. …
Today we’re rolling out Live Audio Rooms and podcasts, as part of our plans to bring social audio experiences to Facebook. Public figures and select Facebook Groups in the US can create Live Audio Rooms on iOS, and select podcasts will be available to listeners in the US. In the coming weeks, we’ll expand the…
We removed a network of accounts, Pages and Groups in Ethiopia for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB). It targeted domestic audiences in its own country. The people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts as a central part of their operations to mislead people about who they are and what they are…