The feature furthers Meta’s push to expand its e-commerce offerings.
Instagram will allow users to shop directly in chats. Instagram is getting a payment feature that will allow users to buy from small businesses through direct messages, parent company Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) said on Monday.
Users of the photo-sharing app need to message the business, add customizations if required and place the order in the chat, Meta said.
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They will also be able to track the order and ask the business any follow-up questions in that same chat thread.
The feature furthers Meta’s push to expand its e-commerce offerings.
Earlier in 2020, the social media giant launched Shops as a way for people to find and buy products on Facebook and Instagram.
Instagram’s new feature will also allow the use of Meta’s payment service Meta Pay to complete purchases, the company said.
While a Moscow court has fined Google 21 billion rubles ($360 million) for failing to remove content concerning Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the nation’s telecommunications regulator said Monday.
Roskomnadzor said the Google-owned video platform YouTube had failed to block “false information” on the offensive in Ukraine, “extremist and terrorist propaganda” and content “calling on minors to participate in unauthorised demonstrations”.
The regulator said that as this was a repeat conviction for Google the fine was based on its annual revenue in Russia.
Russian authorities have been dialling up their pressure on Western social media firms in recent years with repeated fines and threats in a bid to remove criticism from the internet, one of the last bastions of free speech in Russia.
Like most of its Western rivals, Google recently quit the Russian market to denounce Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.
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