Sextortion is a horrific crime, where financially-driven scammers target young adults and teens around the world, threatening to expose their intimate imagery if they don’t get what they want. Today, we’re announcing new measures in our fight against these criminals – including an education campaign to raise awareness among teens and parents about how to…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new update through the TestFlight beta Program, bringing the version up to 24.21.10.76. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to react to messages using recent emojis, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Recent emojis –…
At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2024, we’re sharing details about our next-generation network fabric for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage…
Today we have launched a safety campaign ‘Scams se Bacho’ featuring Bollywood star Ayushmann Khurrana in an effort to educate people on how to stay safe from online scams and promote safer digital practices. A joint initiative between us and three Government entities – the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Indian Cybercrime Coordination…
WhatsApp has just submitted a new stable update for iOS, available on the App Store: the build number is 24.20.78. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out new video playback controls to everyone! Common questions Answers Changelog about? Video playback controls Status? Rolling out Compatibility? WhatsApp for iOS 24.20.78 is marked as…
Today, Meta announces the winners of the “European AI Startup Program”, an initiative to stimulate the European entrepreneurial ecosystem and shape the continent’s next wave of innovation. Following the success of the first edition of the “AI Startup Program” in France, Meta has once again teamed up with Hugging Face, an open-source collaborative platform offering…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.21.37. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a feature to limit the number of lists, and it will be available in a future update! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Chat lists Status?…
As part of our regular updates on notable threat disruption efforts, we’re sharing our findings into coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) targeting Moldova that we disrupted in early Q3 of this year, including threat indicators linked to this activity to contribute to the security community’s efforts to detect and counter malicious activity across the internet. As…
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Today, we’re announcing the expansion of a first-of-its-kind information sharing partnership with banks to help protect people against fraud. The Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange (FIRE) is a threat intelligence sharing programme for financial institutions, allowing banks to share intelligence with us directly so we can use it to stop scammers and protect users. NatWest and…
WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.24.21.29. What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is rolling out a call link feature within individual and group chats, and it’s available to some beta testers! Common questions Answers Name of the feature? Call links for individual…
Today we’re rolling out Facebook Content Monetization beta, a new monetization program that expands opportunities for creators to earn from more content formats. Facebook Content Monetization merges our three existing Facebook-funded creator monetization programs – In-stream ads, Ads on Reels, and the Performance bonus – into a single program that pays creators for Reels, longer…
Missed our weekly WhatsApp beta updates? Catch up now with our summary! Among our 13 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about a redesigned typing and recording indicator available on iOS and Android! Common questions Answers Story about? WhatsApp news of the week I’ve installed the latest update of WhatsApp for…
Data for Good at Meta is open-sourcing the data used to train our AI-powered population maps. We’re hoping that researchers and other organizations around the world will be able to leverage these tools to assist with a wide range of projects including those on climate adaptation, public health and disaster response. The dataset and code…