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There is a difference between understanding the content (e.g. ICO) and understanding what happens a few weeks after the content is interacted with (e.g. someone runs off with the m…

Every Facebook ad has a dropdown in the top right corner, and one of the options is "Why am I seeing this ad?". It will show you details on that ad's targeting and why you are seei…

At least in the United States, Personality rights are only for commercial use. You do not need someone's consent to take their photo or to publish said photo as long as you do not …

$10 may be cheap in the developed countries, but in much of the world this is a very significant amount of money.

It's not about individual productivity - it's about team and company productivity. I doubt anyone questions whether individual effectiveness suffers from an open layout. However op…

Apologies, this was a false positive from our automation and has already been unblocked. Thanks for reporting!

We try to respond to any exploit of this severity immediately, and will often disable a feature temporarily while working on a fix rather than letting the exploit remain open. It h…

We also have a system for patching vulnerabilities which does not require a full code push. It has been useful on a number of occasions. (source: I patched this one)

The ruling is not so much about whether they can search a phone without a warrant, but whether the resulting evidence is admissible in court for criminal cases. This will not impac…

I wonder if the combination of total Hachette sales weighted by the portion of overall book sales via Amazon would be a reasonable approximation.

The 1.1% of Amazon sales (by item count) for Hachette is an interesting metric if only to determine overall sales volume for Amazon should someone happen to have the approximate Ha…

Agreed - shared keychain + unique token would work. Was concerned original post was talking about the advertiser ID as authentication.

If you use the device token as the authentication and identification, any other app on the device immediately gains the ability to log into your service as that user. May as well u…

The Facebook codebase is not exactly a small-to-medium project, so there is a fair bit of value in edit-and-reload.

If it makes you feel any better, that photo of me is from our holiday party - and the 'cigarette' is a prop (I do not smoke). The manhattan in the other hand was real and delicious…

They should all be back now. If not, trouble you to post the app IDs?

Both of these are back, just verified.

Hi, I work at Facebook along with Chris. All of the accounts and apps should now be restored. If any are not (and were disabled between 3pm and 5pm PST today), please let me know t…

This one should be fixed. Thanks for passing it on!

This one should be fixed - thanks for passing it on!

There is a 2-factor code generator built into the Facebook app for iOS and Android specifically to help with SMS deliverability problems. Have a look at https://www.facebook.com/he…

Best ways are to check https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ thoroughly - it's actually a very well written and concise set of policies - or come see us at one of the hackathons …

I am an engineer working on Platform Integrity at Facebook. Just as friends can't consent to transferring friend data outside of an app, they also can't consent to an app taking ac…

Hey guys, I am a Facebook engineer working on this. We've been getting a lot of user feedback recently, spiking significantly over the past week, on the amount of application spam …