LIVE: Mark Zuckerberg unveils Facebook's redesign at the company's biggest event of the year (FB)

• Facebook is holding its biggest event of the year this week.
• The F8 developer conference, held this year from April 30 to May 1, kicks off with a Tuesday morning keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a host of other Facebook executives.
• You can follow every big announcement from Facebook's F8 as it happens — check out our live blog below.

Facebook's biggest event of the year kicks off on Tuesday.

F8, the company's annual developer conference, is happening this year in San Jose, California, from April 30 to May 1. It begins with a live keynote featuring CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a handful of other executives that begins at 10 a.m. PT. We'll learn more about what Facebook is working on, and perhaps some plans for the future.

The event comes as Facebook tries to move past two ugly years of scandals — from Cambridge Analytica's misappropriation of tens of millions of users' data to the social network's role in spreading hate speech that fueled genocide in Myanmar.

Business Insider is attending F8 2019. Follow along with us in the live blog below!

10:02 AM: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage. His first words are "today we're going to build a privacy-focused social platform." (Emphasis on the word "privacy.")

10:03 AM: As the world expands, it faces a new challenge. "Privacy gives us the freedom to be ourselves. It's easier to feel like you belong when your'e part of smaller communities amongst your closest friends," Zuckerberg says. "As the world gets bigger and more connected, we need that sense of intimacy more than ever."

10:04 AM: "The future is private," Zuckerberg declares. "I believe a private-social platform will be more important in our lives than our digital town squares." Whatever that means.