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Re:API and Other Platform Product Changes by dan1234 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:54PM (#16878228)
For those who can't/won't login to see this:

Facebook continues to make real-time improvements to its platform to protect people's data. We are making the following changes to maintain trust with people who use our products. These changes are never easy, but by focusing our efforts, we can put stronger protections in place to combat potential abuse. Please find a quick summary of these changes below:

Facebook Login:

App review required to ask users to share checkins, likes, photos, videos, events, and groups

Following fields are now deprecated and will return empty data: relationship_status, religion, political, friendlists, education, work, about, website, interested_in

Following Open Graph permissions are also deprecated and will return empty data: books, fitness, games, music, news, video

Taggable friends and mutual friends APIs are now deprecated

Pages API:

App review required

Page conversations will receive a new thread identifier

Require a Page access token with a matching Page for specific endpoints: /agencies, /canvases, /instagram_accounts, /leadgen_forms, /page_backed_instagram_accounts, /promotable_posts, /page/userpermissions

Deprecated /checkin_posts API and webhook

Remove social context elements: /friends_who_like, /friends_tagged_at, /video_watch_friends, /music_listen_friends

App review required to use the following edges: GET /page/events and GET /me/events

Events API:

App review required

Deprecated content edges on all events: /feed, /posts, /comments, /pictures, /videos, /live_videos, /photos

Deprecated user edges on all events: /attending, /interested, /declined, /maybe, /noreply

See User Node and Page API sections for details of /events edges on these nodes

Groups API:

App review required; API use must meet a specific group admin need

Removed some fields returned by edges on groups: to, from, likes, reactions, name_tags, message_tags, with_tags, tags, admin_creator

Deprecated APIs that share data about people in groups, including /members, /admins, /owner and a number of undocumented endpoints: /member_requests, /moderators, /former_members, /insights, /links, /tagged

Search API:

Deprecated Search API for pages, groups, events, and users

Games:

Updated Instant Games context_fetchPlayers API to limit users returned to those who have played in the specified context

Deprecated Scores API, Achievements API, /taggable_friends, and /invitable_friends

Deprecated /{app-id}/staticresources

App Insights API:

Removed age, gender and country information from the app_event metric

Instagram API Platform:

Instagram is accelerating the previously announced deprecation of the Instagram API Platform and has lowered rate limits

User Node

The following User node fields will no longer return information: about, education, friendlists, interested_in, political, relationship_status, religion, website, work.

GET /user/groups and GET /me/groups - This edge no longer returns any fields that contain User identifying information. This applies to all app Users, even app Admins querying their own User ID.

App review required to use the following edges: GET /user/events and GET /me/events (apps with user_events permission granted will still require re-review)

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