By Deepa Seetharaman 

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday took a step toward defining a new vision for the social-media company as it grapples with how to handle its growing power in the world.

Over the next decade, Facebook's focus will be giving people the "power to build community and bring the world closer together," the company said in a statement -- a shift from its longtime motto "connect the world."

Mr. Zuckerberg articulated this new mission at a Facebook event in Chicago for about 300 leaders of some of the largest groups on the platform. Facebook also outlined a raft of new features to help make Facebook groups more popular.

Write to Deepa Seetharaman at Deepa.Seetharaman@wsj.com

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

June 22, 2017 12:31 ET (16:31 GMT)

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