Q&A with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on Orion, Reality Labs, building News Feed, competing with Apple, developers, the AR and VR bifurcation, Ray-Ban, and more
Listen to this Update in your podcast player — Today's Daily Update Interview is with Meta Chief Technical Officer Andrew Bosworth.
Facebook splits the Feed on iOS and Android into TikTok-style Home, with recommended content, and Feeds, a chronological feed of pages and people users follow
While new Feeds tab will show chronological content from pages you actually follow — Facebook's almighty News Feed is getting split in two... kind of.
Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
Meta's dismal earnings highlight the challenging competitive landscape, especially TikTok, adding ammunition for the company to fight the FTC's antitrust suit
Meta Platforms Inc.'s dismal earnings report had one potential silver lining for Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg … Tweets: @anshelsag , @kurtwagner8 , @amitranjan , and @dzuidijk Tweets: Anshe...
Facebook says it is testing a feature that lets users adjust the level of News Feed content they see from specific friends, family, Groups, and Pages
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Facebook expands tools to help advertisers avoid placement near sensitive News Feed topics, across news, politics, tragedy, conflict, and debated social issues
Facebook on Thursday said it is expanding the controls it gives advertisers to make it easier for them to limit the types of News Feed content their ads show up next to.
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react
on purpose https://www.protocol.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : This is what Frances Haugen was talking about when she described Facebook's “integrity holdouts” to Congress: “These are peopl...
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”