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The new feature provides a set of events curated by Facebook available to all users in an area. This is why Facebook’s developers are launching Featured Events, a feature that will be very useful for the 550 million people who are using the Events platform daily.
Facebook will have its staff (not robots) curate lists of events in your city that you might want to hit up. The company says whether or not a company buys Facebook ads will have no impact on being selected as a featured event.
With sophisticated chatbots, A.I. and machine learning getting so much better, why is Facebook choosing to go old school by getting real humans to pick the events?
Facebook also gives users the option to “Try it”, when they see someone else’s slideshow in their News Feed.
If you live in New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Miami, or Seattle, you’ll start seeing this new feature at the top of the in-app Events tab this week.
Koolwal added that Facebook’s Featured Events will offer users more time for engagement with the upcoming events.
The existing Events section allowed users to see which friends RSVP’d to events and past events that users had attended. In May, there were accusations that Facebook is practicing political bias by preventing conservative articles from being featured on the Trending Topics section.
The feature originated on Moments, a Facebook-owned app for syncing photos.
If Facebook users have recently taken more than five photos or videos, the app will soon automatically stitch them together and display them at the top of their News Feed. Users can customise the slideshows by adding or removing images or videos. Each uses a different overlay and background music.
There are now 10 themes to choose from, including epic, playful, nostalgic and birthday, each with its own style and music. With Slideshow, it is trying to do that by creating the video for the user by picking up photos from their device in the last 24 hours.