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Facebook Sees Its Future In Chatbots, Live Video

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April 12, 2016

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote address during the 2015 Facebook F8 Developer Conference in San Francisco. (Eric Risberg/AP)

Facebook users may soon see a couple of significant changes to their social media experience. The company holds its annual developer conference, F8, in San Francisco on Tuesday and is expected to discuss two new products: Facebook Live and chatbots.

Both products are becoming more common on Twitter and several smaller messaging apps, but with Facebook's 1.5 billion users, many more people are about to become familiar with them.

Kurt Wagner of Re/code talks to Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson about how these products could change social media and provide a new revenue stream for the technology giant.

Guest

Kurt Wagner, senior editor of social media at Re/code. He tweets @KurtWagner8

This segment aired on April 12, 2016.

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