Facebook Scraps May Developers Conference Over Rising Virus Concerns

“Growing concerns” about the coronavirus persuaded Facebook to cancel its May 5-6 “F8" developers conference in San Jose, blogged Director-Developer Platforms Konstantinos Papamiltiadis Thursday. “This was a tough call,” he said. “We explored other ways to keep the in-person part of F8, but it’s important to us to host an inclusive event and it didn’t feel right to have F8 without our international developers in attendance.” The company plans to replace the conference with “a combo of locally hosted events, videos and live streamed content,” with additional details in “coming weeks,” he said.