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Shopify plans to allow Meta's Muse to complete purchases on behalf of users at Shopify-powered stores via its one-tap checkout service Shop Pay (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)

Shopify plans to allow Meta's personal AI agent to complete purchases on behalf of users with the e-commerce platform's roster of stores

On September 20, Meta's social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced outages affecting thousands of users across the United States, according to Downdetector.com. As of 9:11 PM ET, there were over 17,000 reports of issues with Facebook and more than 5,000 outages on Instagram. Downdetector.com tracks outages by compiling status reports from various sources.

Meta has not yet commented on the reported outages. It's important to note that the numbers on Downdetector are based on user-submitted reports, so the actual count of affected users could differ. For the latest updates and top stories, users are encouraged to follow the provided channel through their preferred chat application.

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