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More Than $50 Million Raised for Australia Wildfire Relief Efforts

Over the past week we’ve seen people come together on Facebook in inspiring ways to support the people and wildlife affected by the Australia wildfires.

January 10, 2020January 13, 2020

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Expanded Transparency and More Controls for Political Ads

New features will allow people to see fewer political and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram.

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

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Guiding You Through Your Privacy Choices

We updated the Privacy Checkup tool to help you strengthen your account security and control who can see what you share and how your information is used.

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020

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Our Progress on Leading the Fight Against Online Bullying

We’ve developed AI that can recognize different forms of bullying on Instagram.

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019

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Food for Thought: AI Researchers Develop New Way to Reverse Engineer Recipes From Photos

Their “inverse cooking” system uses computer vision, technology that extracts information from digital images and videos to give computers a high level of understanding of the visual world.

December 16, 2019January 14, 2020

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Facebook Disaster Maps Help Those Affected by Australia’s Bushfires

Disaster Maps are being used in Australia to illustrate how populations are evacuating and whether they have access to cellular networks to help optimize response efforts.

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

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Enforcing Against Manipulated Media

We’re strengthening our policy toward misleading manipulated videos that have been identified as deepfakes.

January 6, 2020January 13, 2020

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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US

We removed two unconnected networks of accounts, Pages and Groups for engaging in foreign and government interference on Facebook and Instagram.

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019

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An Update on Our Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online

This year, we faced new threats in how terrorists and violent extremists seek to exploit digital platforms, but we made significant progress in our work to combat and prevent them.

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019

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Helping to Protect the 2020 US Census

We’re updating our Community Standards to prohibit census interference in posts on Facebook and Instagram, and we’re banning ads that aim to limit census participation.

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

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Helping Fact-Checkers Identify False Claims Faster

We’re announcing a new program that will allow fact-checkers to quickly see whether a group of Facebook users found a potentially false claim to be corroborated or contradicted.

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019

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Expanded Transparency and More Controls for Political Ads

Guiding You Through Your Privacy Choices

Our Progress on Leading the Fight Against Online Bullying

Food for Thought: AI Researchers Develop New Way to Reverse Engineer Recipes From Photos

Enforcing Against Manipulated Media

Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From Georgia, Vietnam and the US

An Update on Our Efforts to Combat Terrorism Online

Helping to Protect the 2020 US Census

Helping Fact-Checkers Identify False Claims Faster

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