Today, we’ve filed separate actions in federal court against a company and an individual for scraping data from Facebook and Instagram. Octopus: Scraping For Hire The first action is against a company called Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese national high-tech enterprise that claims to have over one million customers. Octopus offers scraping services…
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How We Work to Safeguard People Against Clone Sites
Over the past year, we’ve shared a number of updates on the work of our External Data Misuse (EDM) and legal teams to combat unauthorized data scraping across our services. Today, we’re sharing an update on clone sites — what they are and the risks they carry, how our teams are working to address them…
Our Largest Ever Climate Survey Can Inform Policies, Research and Campaigns Around the World
Today, Meta and researchers at Yale University are publishing the results of our biggest ever global survey about public views towards climate change. In March and April this year, a sample of more than 100,000 Facebook users from nearly 200 countries and territories were asked about their knowledge of, and attitudes and behavior towards, climate change…
Introducing Features to Quickly Find and Connect with Facebook Groups
New Ways to Organize Your Groups On Facebook, we’re testing a new sidebar that helps you easily find your favorite groups more quickly. It will list your groups and the latest activity within them, like new posts or chats you haven’t yet seen. You can also pin your favorite groups so they show up first,…
Uplifting Tribal Communities in India Through Digital Entrepreneurship
Inspired by the rich culture and talent represented by the tribal and indigenous communities of India, we are extending our collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to launch the second phase of the Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) program. GOAL 2.0 will look to digitally upskill, connect and empower 10 lakh youth and women…
Taking a Deep Dive Into the Digitisation of Italian SMBs
Italy falls behind other EU countries in terms of digitisation, coming 20th in the European Commission’s DESI Index, which measures the digitisation of all 27 EU Member States. To help address this and give businesses a better understanding of the growth opportunity digitisation brings, we commissioned The European House – Ambrosetti to carry out a…
Introducing New Ways to Verify Age on Instagram
Starting today, we’re testing new options for people on Instagram to verify their age, starting with people based in the US. If someone attempts to edit their date of birth on Instagram from under the age of 18 to 18 or over, we’ll require them to verify their age using one of three options: upload…
Introducing Meta Pay | Meta
Our company rebrand last year reinforced our commitment and vision to help build the next evolution of social connection — the metaverse. As Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday, we’re changing Facebook Pay to Meta Pay to bring our payments offering closer to our rebrand. Meta Pay will be the same easy, secure way for you to…
New Ways for EMEA Creators to Grow Their Businesses on Facebook
To help grow the creator economy, we’re developing monetisation tools so that creators at all stages of their growth can build a sustainable business. Today, we’re announcing tools that will give creators in EMEA new opportunities to earn a living and engage their communities. We’re also extending our commitment to not collect any revenue share…
Introducing the Meta Avatars Store
Earlier this year, we expanded our 3D Meta Avatars beyond VR, rolling them out to Facebook and Messenger—plus Instagram Stories and DMs. And today, we’re introducing the Meta Avatars Store, which will let you customize your avatar even further and be uniquely you. We know that many of you want to more fully represent yourselves…