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#F8 diving right into how their platform has been misused. They're super committed to building more tech. They're also super optimistic. Talking lots about how relationships should be the center of focus of computing rather than apps (not sure I agree).pic.twitter.com/HBTretQaeU

Facebook admits that they've been very reactive to dealing with state actors doing information warfare to manipulate socities. They're showing spatial timelines focused on how they are now being proactive. Kind of scary that they haven't always been trying to do more.pic.twitter.com/qRgPJRiEeE

All the stuff Facebook is doing to fight spam, fake accounts, and hoaxes. Facebook has consistently avoided ever calling itself a content company, but they're clearly having to make lots of editorial decisions now.pic.twitter.com/mUOZEBkMTK

GDPR has forced new data privacy standards, policies, & tools. But again, it's all been very reactive. Facebook also likes to conflate transparency with privacy. At it's core, Facebook does surveillance-based marketing & tough to resolve business conflicts of interest to privacypic.twitter.com/7JrKKSCPIp

Facebook will be adding Dating to Facebook. Apparently they're going to create de-identified profiles, and you won't see dating profiles of friends. They're somehow going to protect your real identity from being connected. Will they use Big Data to match people?pic.twitter.com/A5gYPqGdmu

AR Camera Effects coming to both Instagram (public) & Messenger (private)pic.twitter.com/x2B46xI6Wy

Facebook can reconstruct your childhood home from photos. This is something @SarahMidMO said was the ulitimate potential of VR. It'll be a very nostalgic & powerful application of VR.pic.twitter.com/NXh10MPj9Y

Oculus Go is now available for $199. Everyone here at #F8 will get one, which is a powerful way to seed & grow the developer community. It's at the price point that it makes sense to do thatpic.twitter.com/yRBNOexC2W

Facebook says their primary mission is to connect people by building tools. Yet their advertising business model creates a fundamental split between privacy & free expression while gutting local community advertising. They're blind to unintended yin consequences of yang building.pic.twitter.com/oWvUZNsBXd

Facebook says that Dating on Facebook will "only use your first name." No mention of option to use completely anonymous name. There is a ritual for revealing your name, and it seems like an odd choice that doesn't feel private at all.pic.twitter.com/SHbGNgaPEn

I'd you make a special AR filter, then your followers will have access to the AR filter. Brands will help mediate & alter people's identity with their own brand identities. Have to follow to get access to the filter. Tons of awesome/terrible immersive marketing opportunitiespic.twitter.com/B87LkKcU0H

Instagram's photo sharing app has become the dominant visual communication platform for photos. More AR features coming. Also video chat coming.pic.twitter.com/fkVKlqPzX2

Facebook is defining their taxonomy of different connections and relationships on Facebook: * Family * Close Friends * All Friends * Groups * Matching & Dating coming soonpic.twitter.com/ta693h11Px

I wonder if Facebook will educate these developers on data privacy best practices during the keynote. Cambridge Analytica did get shamed for violating terms of service & banned. If Facebook was truly dedicated to privacy, they could be cultivating privacy culture at all levelspic.twitter.com/UScaUR9deI

Facebook Messenger + AR has conversational interfaces with bots to create immersive & interactive brand marketing experiences that lead to splash pages to buy stuff. AR is the bleeding edge of immersive advertising for Facebook. VR is lagging behind but is for sure on the roadmappic.twitter.com/iZgQDOItgk

.@hbarra says that Facebook/Oculus' mission is to defy distance. They also need to bootstrap an developer ecosystem to do that. The $200 price point will help ger more headsets out there. It'll be interesting to see which of the 1000 3-DoF launch apps will catch onpic.twitter.com/8ypm9zsdDO

Three premium apps for Oculus Go: Oculus TV: watch Netflix, Hulu, ESPN, Showtime with Watch Parties Oculus Rooms: Play Hasbro Board games Oculus Venus: Live events in VR by @nextvr, MLB, NBA, etc. All great use cases for social VRpic.twitter.com/2jimDYZOqO

Facebook's roadmap for AR & VR is becoming a lot clearer. Sharing moments.pic.twitter.com/tWTU9V9l6h

Sharing 3D objects on news feed & see it in your world via AR. Capturing 3D moments. Remembering memories by having AI reconstruct your childhood placespic.twitter.com/PKMgQD8RnL

Here's a demonization the 3D photo demo they're building some hardware for.pic.twitter.com/RsV5XblLY5

Here's a longer demo of Facebook's AI that will reconstruct your childhood locations to be able to spatially place photos & videos in the context where they happened. Anyone who has gone to their hometown in Google Earth knows how powerful embodied cognition is. VERY POWERFUL!pic.twitter.com/gFq1sLfq8w

#F8 marketing theme is Build! 'In order it change the world, you have to build tools that people will abuse.' The problem is unabashed building without truly listening to the backlash of giant behavioral modification engines that hack our attention in a quantified world of likes.pic.twitter.com/OY0dopqM6G

.@gorosart is giving an @Oculus #Quill demo in the press room. He's spent an enormous amount of time creating art in VR, & this video shows how fast & precise he can manipulate dimensional pixels with the Oculus Touch controllers. A master at work...pic.twitter.com/varqV9Rh8o

Day 2 #F8 starting now with Facebook reevaluating their moral responsibilities. They remain as resolved to their technological roadmap to AI, connectivity, & VR/ARpic.twitter.com/yQS77EtNzc

AI is crucial to the future of conversational interfaces and bots, but also VR & ARpic.twitter.com/G0tQ1WouYH

AI is Facebook's key strategy to cultivating safe online spaces. Terrorist propaganda is automatically removed. I wonder if there is a formal mathematical or objective definition of the line between free speech & terrorist propaganda. Speaks to the philosophy limits of AI & ML.pic.twitter.com/8vIYkGzJpX

Facebook says Supervised Learning is key to all of their AI, which means that the data have to be labeled by humans before it's trained. So AI will keep FB safe, but yet humans subjectivity is key to cultivating objectified neural networks. What is the tech debt of maintenance?pic.twitter.com/HiZA2QnyiN