FB Mastery

Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today, and the company just finished its opening keynote. Its overwhelming theme, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.”

Facebook Inc. disclosed a flaw on its social network that made passwords of hundreds of millions of users visible to employees and said the issue has now been fixed.

As part of Facebook's efforts to improve otheir ads metrics offerings, they are removing a number of metrics and replacing them with ones that may provide insights that are more actionable.

Facebook advertisers promoting housing, employment or credit offers will no longer be able to target ads by age, gender or ZIP code. The new ad policy applies to advertisers targeting U.S. users on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.

Facebook is working to tackle vaccine misinformation on Facebook by reducing its distribution and providing people with authoritative information on the topic.

After building a social network that turned into a surveillance system, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s shifting his company’s focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

Facebook will drive a hard bargain with influencers and artists judging by the terms of service for the social network’s Patreon-like Fan Subscriptions feature that lets people pay a monthly fee for access to a creator’s exclusive content.

For Facebook, giving its 2.32 billion monthly users the ability to clear out their digital history – something the company plans to launch in 2019 – is going to hurt the social-media colossus’ business, according to a top Facebook exec.

Facebook is rolling out a new feature to its Android app that lets you stop the company from tracking your location even when you're not using the app.

Read the latest guidelines from Facebook on their advertising policies.