Research

By integrating Privacy Enhancing Technologies into our products, we are building trustworthy experiences that billions of people use worldwide. Our primary goal is to help design...

In 2019, Instagram requests research proposals to help us better understand experiences on Instagram that foster or harm the well-being and safety of our communities and societies. This includes, but is not limited to, research that will help us understand problematic issues facing our communities, develop better content policies, assess possible interventions to protect our communities, or identify the mechanisms (e.g., social support, social comparison) through which Instagram usage directly impacts well-being.

Facebook is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to this call for research proposals on computer communications and networking;...

Facebook’s mission of bringing the world closer together requires supporting one of the world’s most complex backend systems. Operating infrastructure at scale with a high level of efficiency and stability raises new and interesting challenges, providing a natural laboratory for developing highly impactful solutions at the intersection of applied math, probability, computer science, and other quantitative disciplines.

Every day, billions of people connect with each other through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and many other Meta products. Our Core Systems researchers and engineers...

Facebook is pleased to invite submissions for Secure the Internet Grant proposals from university researchers and faculty, non-profit organizations, and NGOs for applied research proposals to improve the security, privacy, and safety of internet users.

To promote the first use of the library and faster adaptation, we are pleased to accept proposals focused on using PyRobot with the recently introduced low-cost hardware LoCoBot. The proposals should focus on how the applicants plan to use PyRobot and demonstrate new tasks, help the robotics research community by implementing benchmark algorithms.

The reduction of fake and misleading content on Facebook is mostly driven by the state-of-the-art text and visual recognition systems, including Machine Translation, Automatic Speech and Character Recognition, and Image and Text Categorization. However, we still need major improvements in AI systems to further improve online safety. What is currently lacking is a well-defined set of tasks around online safety, together with appropriate benchmarks to quantify performance. The goal of the RFP is to challenge the community to address these challenges together, and to solicit new tasks.

We are pleased to invite the academic community to respond to this call for research proposals on crisis informatics and the role of social media in disaster response and recovery.

To foster further innovation in program analysis for privacy, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, WhatsApp is pleased to invite faculty to respond to this call for...