2020-03

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I'm excited to share that Nancy Killefer and Tracey T. Travis are joining Facebook's board of directors. Nancy brings a great deal of private and public sector experience to this position. She's...

Dark mode on WhatsApp is here. Probably one of the most requested features we've ever shipped.

As part of our efforts to support the news ecosystem and make sure everyone has access to accurate and timely information, we're investing $100 million in new funds to support journalists, especially...

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A lot of people have told us they want to help fight coronavirus but aren't sure how, so we've worked with the United Nations Foundation and the World Health Organization to start a COVID-19...

We made a short film "Never Lost" to honor the solidarity and resilience of so many people coming together during this time. Thank you to everyone doing your part. If you need help or can offer it,...

As part of our effort to make sure everyone has access to accurate and timely information about the outbreak, we're launching the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center, a hub where you can get...

Some non-coronavirus news: I'm pleased to announce that Bob Kimmitt is joining our board as lead independent director. Bob has deep experience working in business, technology and public policy at the...

Our team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is partnering with Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California to significant increase testing capacity at UCSF. The goal is to rapidly bring testing...

Since we're all more focused on science and health right now, I wanted to share this story about a tool we built at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative that's now being used to sequence the genome of the...

We're focused on making sure everyone can access accurate information about the coronavirus. As a part of this, we're partnering with CNN to host a town hall with a panel of medical experts from...

We've completely rewritten Messenger to get a lot faster. Starting today, we'll be rolling out the new Messenger app for iOS. Once the rollout is complete, Messenger will be one quarter the size and...

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A lot of engineers at Facebook and at companies and universities around the world are asking how they can get more involved in the fight against COVID-19. So in addition to all of our other efforts...

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I wanted to share an update on the steps we're taking to respond to the coronavirus. This is now a global challenge and we’ve spent the past month working with health authorities to coordinate our...

Around 1:30pm PT today, Priscilla and I will go live with Governor Gavin Newsom to talk about California's response to the Covid-19 outbreak. We'll be taking questions from the community, so please...

As part of our response to the coronavirus outbreak, our team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is working with UCSF and Stanford to quadruple the Bay Area's testing and diagnostics capacity. We're...

As part of our effort to make sure everyone has accurate and timely information about coronavirus, we're working with the Indian government and national governments around the world. Thanks for your...

If you want to hear more about our efforts to accelerate the development of drugs to fight coronavirus, and all the other work we're doing across Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to...

Priscilla and I are committing $25 million to accelerate the development of treatments for COVID-19. We're partnering with the Gates Foundation and others to quickly evaluate the most promising...

Live with Priscilla and the Biohub's Joe DeRisi on how we're responding to the coronavirus.

The coronavirus outbreak isn't just a major health crisis -- it's also a large economic disruption leading to people losing their jobs and making it harder to take care of their families. We've heard...

Around 4pm PT today, I'm going live with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert involved in leading our government's response. He'll discuss the measures we can all take to...

We're glad to be working in close partnership with Dr. Tedros and the World Health Organization to help respond to the coronavirus outbreak. Thank you to everyone at the WHO and all the front-line...

As people around the world practice physical distancing, internet use is surging to levels never seen before. We're seeing significant increases in people using our services to stay connected while...

So far, we've helped over a billion people access authoritative information and health resources via our Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center and educational pop-ups. And more than 100 million...

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Health workers urgently need more protective gear. To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued. We're also working on sourcing...

At 9am PT, Biohub co-president and infectious disease expert Joe DeRisi will join me to go live to discuss what we know about the coronavirus, the work we're doing to respond to it, and to take your...

We're continuing to work with health authorities around the world to address the critical shortage of masks and medical supplies. In addition to our other donations, we're committing $10 million to...