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Creating Safe Spaces for Underrepresented Individuals in Open Source Communities

Open source communities thrive on diverse perspectives and contributions from their members. However, underrepresented individuals often face unique challenges that make it difficult for them to authentically participate in these communities. In this article, we will explore the importance of creating safe spaces for underrepresented individuals in...

Open Source 2023

May 31, 2023

Introducing the ‘Instagram search results’ Ads Placements via the Instagram Marketing API

Starting today, we now allow for ads in Instagram search results via the Instagram Marketing API. This new ads placement will be available on all current Marketing API versions, and does not require an upgrade.This will not require the use of a new endpoint; the ‘Instagram search results’ placement option will be available via the current Marketing...

2023

May 24, 2023

Introducing Facebook Graph API v17.0 and Marketing API v17.0

Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v17.0 and Marketing API v17.0. As part of this release, we are highlighting changes below that we believe are relevant to parts of our developer community. These changes include announcements, product updates, and notifications on deprecations that we believe are relevant to your application(s)’...

Business Tools Platforms

May 23, 2023

Messenger Desktop: Faster and Smaller by moving to React Native from Electron

React Native has been an excellent tool for creating mobile applications at Meta. It allows us to build feature-rich mobile experiences reaching millions of users every day. With growing demands for our desktop applications, our team explored whether React Native could provide similar wins for desktop development at Meta. We were able to partner...

Open Source 2023

May 17, 2023

Uncovering the Unknown Unknown

Meta has an ecosystem of products that are used by billions of users every day, whether for social connections or for business engagement. These billions of users also ask us to continually and–at an accelerated pace–deliver new functionality and improvements in our products. Due to the large user base, we deliver thousands of code changes each day...

Developer Tools Open Source

May 16, 2023

New Marketing and MPA API Requirements for Facebook and Instagram Ads Targeting the EU

Meta continuously works to meet regulatory requirements. As part of our efforts to create transparency for businesses and people, and to respond to EU regulations, we will require advertisers to designate who benefits from their ads (beneficiary) and who is paying for their ads (payer) for all Facebook and Instagram ads which target the EU,...

2023 Marketing API

May 16, 2023

Publishing Stories with the Instagram Content Publishing API

Stories are now an eligible media type on the Instagram Graph API, giving third-party developers the ability to empower businesses to publish Stories to Instagram for the first time. This adds another media post type to third-party platforms and gives businesses broader access to a highly requested feature that is integral to the Instagram...

Business Tools 2023

May 16, 2023

Dynamic Video as Primary Media for Collection Ads Now Available in Marketing API

Instant Experiences are a full-screen, mobile optimized post-click ad destination that loads nearly instantaneously from ads in Feed. Within an Instant Experience, people can watch engaging videos and photos, swipe through carousels, tilt to pan and explore lifestyle images with tagged products - all in a single ad.Collection Ads let people move...

Developer Tools 2023

May 11, 2023

Meet the Developers: Big Data Edition (Neerad Somanchi)

For today's interview, we have Neerad Somanchi, a Production Engineer on the Presto team at Meta. Presto powers an incredibly wide variety of internal tools and platforms, including real time analytics, research, our ads platform, and much more. The Presto production engineering team focuses on evolving and maintaining Meta’s Presto architecture....

Developer Tools Open Source

May 10, 2023