📲 Facebook is pushing Reels into nearly every part of its app

If there was ever any doubt about just how much of a threat TikTok poses to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg recently cleared things up when he cited the competitor as the reason Facebook lost users for the first time ever.

Now, the company is ready to push its TikTok clone into more parts of its social network as it tries to counter those declines. To further incentive Reels creators, Facebook is also making monetization features available to more people.

Reels will be available as a standalone feature on Facebook in more than 150 countries. The expansion will be a major test for the company, which has made competing with TikTok and luring more young adults to its platform a top priority.

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🚁 4 dead after Hawaii helicopter crash, US Navy reveals

Four people have died after a helicopter crash in Hawaii, a spokesperson for the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility confirmed Tuesday.

The incident happened shortly after 10 a.m. on the island of Kauai. A spokesperson for the PMRF confirmed there were four fatalities when the civilian contracted helicopter crashed on the northern side of the facility.

It is currently unknown what exactly caused the helicopter to crash. Authorities will continue to investigate

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GM is shutting down its in-car shopping app

GM has told its customers it's shutting down the Marketplace app, which allowed drivers to pay for goods and services through the infotainment system. The app, which arrived in 2017, let them buy things like gas and coffee and make hotel and restaurant reservations via the dashboard. The company will wind down Marketplace starting in March.

The automaker brought the app to millions of its vehicles in the US, but it seems drivers didn't really take to it. According to CNBC, an engineer said that after the feature launched, the active user rates were in the "thousands."

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❗️Footage from the site of a terrorist attack at a trolleybus depot in Lugansk that was earlier reported by the LPR.

WATCH | The moment of an explosion at a trolleybus depot in Lugansk

⚡️ Berlin: Nord Stream 2 can be completely stopped, Germany coordinating next step with US and EU

⚡️ Word 'invasion' used by Biden not appropriate for what happening now in Ukraine - Paris

⚡️ Ukraine urges its citizens to leave Russia 'immediately'

⚡️ Lavrov: Guterres turned out to be subject of pressure from West regarding situation in Ukraine

⚡️ DPR representatives in the JCCC and repair team come under fire while working at an electrical substation in Staromikhailovka

🇺🇸 Former US President Donald Trump’s new Truth Social app – created after he was permanently banned from Twitter and very similar thereto – was downloaded 170,000 times in its first day available, a site that tracks the app ecosystem, AppTopia, says.

⚡️ Ukraine's Security Council decides to declare state of emergency across nation, except for Donetsk, Lugansk

⚡️ Total of 36,000 reservists are being recruited into Ukrainian army, National Security Council head says

⚡️ Kiev enforces new restrictions in areas bordering Russia, Belarus, Donbass - border guard

❗️EU ambassadors approve sanctions on Russia

⚡️ EU sanctions package against Russia will target media sector as well – EEAS

⚡️ Artillery fire heard in Lugansk, Sputnik correspondent reports

📹: The leader of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, is holding a press conference following recognition of the republic by Russia.

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⚡️ DPR head says Ukrainian army may launch offensive at any minute

⚡️ Boris Johnson says UK to send lethal 'defensive' weapons to Ukraine soon