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Online shopping platforms will soon have a new challenger from Facebook, called Facebook Shops and Instagram Shops. In one of their biggest move into e-commerce, Shops will enable businesses to list the products they are selling and connect with more customers on both platforms.

Facebook is adding a new reaction to live alongside the Like button and the existing reactions: ‘Hug’

Facebook just launched a Messenger app for MacOS and Windows so you can video chat on your computer and stay connected with friends and family all over the world.

Facebook has aannounced the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information Center, featured at the top of News Feed, to provide a central place for people to get the latest news and information as well as resources and tips to stay healthy and support their family and community.

In a bid to prevent sellers from exploiting the current COVID-19 spread, any advertisements for medical face masks will be banned on the social media platform and Marketplace.

Today, Facebook is updating their company branding to be clearer about the products that come from Facebook. They're introducing a new company logo and further distinguishing the Facebook company from the Facebook app, which will keep its own branding.

Facebook is starting to test Facebook News, a dedicated place for news on Facebook, to a subset of people in the US. News gives people more control over the stories they see, and the ability to explore a wider range of their news interests, directly within the Facebook app. It also highlights the most relevant national stories of the day.

Facebook is better with location. It powers features like check-ins and makes planning events easier. It helps improve ads and keep you and the Facebook community safe. Features like Find Wi-Fi and Nearby Friends use precise location even when you’re not using the app to make sure that alerts and tools are accurate and personalized for you.

Starting today, people who newly join Facebook or who previously had the tag suggestions setting will have the face recognition setting and will receive information about how it works. The tag suggestions setting, which only controls whether we can suggest that your friends tag you in photos or videos using face recognition will no longer be available.

Many apps and websites are free because they’re supported by online advertising. And to reach people who are more likely to care about what they are selling, businesses often share data about people’s interactions on their websites with ad platforms and other services. This is how much of the internet works, but given that the average person with a smartphone has more than 80 apps and uses about 40 of them every month, it can be really difficult for people to keep track of who has information about them and what it’s used for.