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Hey welcome to f8 and I want to start today by talking about protecting something that is really incredibly important to all of us and that is the integrity of our elections in 2016 we were slow to identify Russian interference we expected more traditional cyber attacks like phishing and Malware and hacking and we identified those and notified the right people but we didn't expect these coordinated information operations and large networks of fake accounts that were now aware of so I sat down with our teams after this and we said we will never be unprepared for this again and since then there have been important elections like the French presidential election the German elections the Alabama Senate special election last year and we've been more prepared we deployed new AI tools that successfully identified and took down tens of thousands of fake accounts before they could do anything we've traced the fake account network back to Russia and taken down their network we're doing more we're requiring everyone requiring I'm running political and issue ads or running large pages to be verified with a government ID we're making ads more transparent so now you're gonna be able to see who is running a political ad who they're targeting how much they're spending and most importantly what other messages they're sending to different people that is a higher standard of transparency than TV ads then print ads or anything else you will find on the Internet by the end of this year we will have 20,000 people working on security and content review at Facebook now this is an important election year not only the big US midterms that are coming up with our major elections around the world in Mexico and Brazil there are elections coming up in India and Pakistan and more and we are focused on this in your web browser you today have a simple way to clear your cookies and clear your browsing history right the idea is that a lot of sites need this data to work you need cookies but you should have the ability to go in and clear your history at any point that you want so we're working on a version of this for Facebook to it's a simple control where you can clear your browsing history what you've clicked on the websites you visited and so on and we're gonna call it clear history and we're starting with something that a lot of people have asked about recently and that's the information that we get from websites and apps who are using Facebook's advertising and analytics tools so you can you're gonna be able to use this tool to see the information about the apps and websites you've interacted with you'll be able to clear all this information from your account and you'll even be able to turn it off having this information stored with your account going forward this is the kind of control that we think that people should have so we're building this and we're gonna have a lot more like this to talk about soon so today we are announcing a new set of features coming soon around dating it's gonna be for building real long-term relationships all right not just took ups it's gonna be in the Facebook app but it's totally optional it's opt-in if you want you can make a dating profile and and I know a lot of you gonna have questions about this so I want to be clear that we've designed this with privacy and safety in mind from the beginning your friends aren't gonna see your profile you're only going to be suggested people who are not your friends who have opted into dating who fit your preferences although I can't promise that you're gonna get emai it's a tough world all right Chris Cox will come up in a bed and walk you through this in more detail so this is Jennifer she's just moved to Chicago she's interested in dating she likes running and college football so she this is her facebook profile she would see in the upper right a place she can tap to go to dating home the first thing she would do here is set up a dating profile this is just her first name it is not visible to her friends it's only visible to folks using the dating service and it doesn't show up in newsfeed or anywhere else once she's done that she can go browse events and groups this will let her see things in the city and groups related to her interests so let's say she sees a grew an event she wants to go to she can go and unlock the event so unlocking the event will mean she shares her dating profile with other people who are going to the event are using the dating service and have also unlocked it then she can browse people who were there say she wants to talk to Jay she'll start a conversation with a photo from his profile this will encourage we hope a more meaningful interaction then if he wants to respond they'll do so in a private messaging inbox connected to the profile this is text only as a safety measure and it's not connected to messenger or whatsapp because folks wanted this to be in a separate space and not commingled with the rest of their inbox so we hope that this will help more folks meet and hopefully find partners we're excited to share a lot more on this over the next few months with oculus go we're introducing three flagship experiences for social entertainment in VR a brand new version of oculus rooms and two entirely new social apps oculus TV and oculus venues let's start with oculus TV you get this ginormous virtual TV in your living room that's equivalent to a 180 inch screen in reality and it works just like the best Smart TVs out there use the controller to change channels navigate around and choose between live and on-demand content and starting this summer you'll be able to invite friends cousins and grandparents to have a watch party in VR wherever they are in the world oculus TV launches this month and we're adding tons of great content partners over the next few months including ESPN Netflix Hulu and Showtime another awesome way to spend quality time with friends in VR is oculus rooms and today we're launching a totally new version of oculus rooms that gives you even more funds to more fun things to do with your friends in VR we built a new environment that is even more inviting with things we know people love to do together you can watch 3-d movies or listen to music while hanging out and playing a board game together and speaking of board games we're excited to announce a new partnership with Hasbro to bring some of the world's most popular board games to oculus rooms we're starting with boggle which goes live this month and soon also monopoly and Trivial Pursuit experiences these are super fun games that people love and that you can now play with your friends in the r and feel like you're there together next is oculus venues which is going to be your ticket to live social events in VR like concerts sports comedy nights and movie screenings check this out you get to sit in this awesome VR amphitheater with thousands of people and watch premium events together like soccer live in a hundred and eighty degrees you can see and hear the crowd and really feel the energy in the room it is great and the summer session in oculus venues kicks off with our first event a live concert from Vance joy on May 30th we have a great lineup of live event partners coming to oculus venues live concerts from AEG live games from the MLB and the NBA movie screenings from Lionsgate plus comedy nights and tons of entertainment from next VR for $1.99 you get access to over 1,000 apps and games tons of experiences to broaden your horizons in some of the most exciting social entertainment today we're also launching a version of oculus go with double the storage memory 64 gigabytes for 249 so our goal here is to create this real feeling of presence right like you're right there with someone even if they're halfway around the world and you know this idea of being physically your being feeling like you're there with some even you can't physically be there someone we've talked about a lot today with video chat but over the long term virtual reality and eventually augmented reality we're going to take this to a completely different level or it's not just going to be about you know being able to see someone's face on a on a small screen I'm you're gonna actually be able to feel like you're there with someone so here's an example of how compelling I think that this is gonna be you know now if you have some photos from your childhood home we can now use computer vision to fill in the gaps with this pointillism effect and recreate the rooms of your childhood home where you grew up so you're gonna vote to go into VR with your family and visit and feel like you are right there it feels like you're in a dream it is wild so this work of mapping out immersive spaces is just another important step on the path to creating this real feeling of presence so we've been preparing oculus go for and the big news I have to share today is oculus co is shipping today starts at $1.99 it is the first really affordable stand-alone virtual reality headset it's launching with more than a thousand apps and it has the highest quality lenses and optics that we have ever built into a VR device oculus co is going to be it's the easiest way to get into VR and we think that this is going to be how a lot of people experience virtual reality and virtual presence for the first time so it turns out that a lot of people are using live video basically just to hang out when you can't be physically together or it's amazing how much of all of our use of these social tools is just to get as close to feeling like we're there with someone when we can't physically be there so today to make this easier we're announcing video chat and Instagram you're gonna be able to just tap on a new camera icon right in the top of any direct thread that you have and you're gonna build a video chat one on water with groups you're gonna be able to minimize the video while you're chatting and using Instagram and and I think that this is gonna be a really big deal and people are really gonna like this we are also building more creative ways for people to share an Instagram and a last year at f8 we announced the AR camera effects platform and today we're bringing it to Instagram so now anyone is gonna be able to build face filters and effects when you go to your camera you're gonna be able to see effects that are relevant to you and from the accounts that you follow if you're browsing stories and you see a cool effect you always be able to try it on so we're excited to get this in people's hands soon and more than 200 million people use Explorer on Instagram every day since we launched hashtag following and just last December more than 100 million people now follow hashtags so we want to make it even easier to find the communities for the things that you're interested in so we're launching a completely new design for Explorer that is going to organize the content around topic channels now so now your Explorer is gonna be even more focused on the things you're interested in now when you're messaging you really want a simple and fast experience so we're taking this moment to completely redesign messenger to focus on these ideas and here's what the new messenger is going to look like now I mentioned earlier that we are bringing the AR camera effects platform to Instagram a really fun way for people to use augmented reality to connect with their family and friends privately and in real time now I don't know about you guys but um but my daughter's when um what I call them when I'm traveling you know they they love these effects right Priscilla will be there and actually go look mama dad does a bunny or an ogre this year were really excited to announce em translations for the very first time you're going to have the ability to talk to almost anyone you want in the world at an unprecedented scale even if you don't speak the same language and this will power connections that weren't possible before and all kinds of different circumstances and definitely make the world a lot smaller