News for Developers

New Marketing API Requirements for all Advertising Campaigns

We’re committed to protecting people from discrimination on Facebook and, as part of this commitment, we announced changes earlier this year to all ads that offer housing, employment and credit opportunities.Advertisers, developers and partners must specify whether or not their ads fall under either the category of housing, employment or credit....

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August 15 2019

Introducing New Getting Started Guide and App Review Design

We're improving the experience of building on the Facebook platform with a new getting started guide that surfaces educational resources and helps developers navigate the process of onboarding. To make the app review process easier for developers, we're also launching a new design that breaks down the process into three manageable steps.New getting...

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December 17 2018

Facebook Launches Verification for Individual Developers

As announced earlier this year, all apps using certain Facebook Platform APIs need to go through a comprehensive review process. As part of this review, developers need to verify the business associated with their app by connecting to a Business Manager account and providing business details and documentation.However, we've heard from many...

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December 10 2018

App Review Deadlines - Reminder

In July, we announced the App Review deadlines. Today, we're sending a friendly reminder of the App Review submission deadline for Facebook Login permissions, as well as announce an App Review submission deadline for 2 APIs. The summary of deadlines is below, with additional details following. August 1, 2018: Deadline to re-request: Facebook...

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October 11 2018

Improved Facebook App Review Process

In May 2018, we announced that all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through a more comprehensive review to better protect people's Facebook information.In the coming months, we will begin proactively enrolling apps in the app review process, if you haven't already enrolled your app in the new process. You will receive an alert...

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September 20 2018

API for Ads Related to Politics or Issues of National Importance

To increase ads transparency, we require advertisers who run ads related to politics or issues of national importance to confirm their identities and provide “paid for by” disclaimers that communicate who paid for the ad. We initially made this available in the U.S. and will expand over time to other countries. For your clients who plan to run ads...

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August 20 2018

API Changes for Custom Audience Sharing

As we shared in June, we've introduced a new upload and sharing flow for Custom Audiences from a customer file. When uploading Custom Audiences from a customer file, advertisers need to accept our Custom Audiences terms, provide audience origin information, and establish audience sharing relationships through Business Manager. As noted, these...

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August 08 2018

An Update on Facebook App Review

Back in May, we announced that all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through a more comprehensive review to better protect people's Facebook information — with an August 1 deadline to submit for review for all existing apps. As a result, we are cutting off API access for hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that have not...

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July 31 2018

Platform Update on Publish Permission

Update on August 1, 2019 at 6:00PM PT: We've listened to feedback from our developer community, and recognize that more time is needed for many partners to fully transition off of the publish_actions permission. In response, we’ve updated the deprecation timeline, and a limited number of developers now have until February 1, 2020, before the...