Meta has launched Forum, an experimental standalone app that pulls Facebook Group conversations into a dedicated space for topic-based discussion and advice-sharing.
The social media giant began testing the app in May 2026 and is gradually layering in features designed to help users find relevant communities and information.
Forum's centrepiece is Ask, an AI tool that searches posts and comments across both joined and public Facebook Groups to surface answers drawn from real user experiences, including help comparing products, gifts or books.
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Existing Facebook Groups stay linked to the app, so posts and discussions created in Forum remain connected to their corresponding groups on the main platform.
The app also tests a "top community voice" role that administrators, or Meta itself, can assign to frequent contributors, with members able to opt out if nominated.
Topic labels such as "food and travel" are meant to help people discover discussions without first joining a group.
And Forum supports custom nicknames in some public threads, though a user's real identity stays visible to group administrators for moderation.
AI help tools
Meta is also building AI tools to help administrators manage content and communities.
The community-voice feature is being tested in the US and globally on Facebook, but Meta has not set a timeline for a wider rollout, saying it will keep collecting feedback and building tools for group administrators.
Forum arrives as Meta leans further into AI-assisted discovery to compete with discussion platforms such as Reddit and Quora, drawing on Facebook's existing base of Groups rather than building a new social graph from scratch.
