Facebook announces a redesign of its social network alongside updates to Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp at F8 deve conference.
As Facebook continues to weather a string of legal battles and harsh criticism for its never-ending privacy disasters and a generally lackadaisical attitude towards consumer data, the social networking site kicked off its annual F8 annual developer conference at San Jose yesterday.
It took to the event to outline a new “privacy-focused vision” for the company.
“The future is private,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the crowd of 5,000 developers, creators and entrepreneurs assembled who reacted to the remark with dead silence.
As part of that transition, the company plans to merge together its three massive messaging apps — Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp — into one service, while at the same time establishing a “modern day social network built around Messaging.”
Here are some of the biggest announcements from the first day of the keynote:
With the News Feed more or less becoming a recurring source of headache for Facebook, weaponized to amplify fake news and acts of terror, it’s no surprise the company has downplayed its importance to favor updates from family and friends.
