Executives have cited the difficulty of that task as a key reason for the long lead-up to the new pay system and have been testing and debugging the system.

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With that particular hoopla largely out of the way, we can assume that Facebook staff have been able to devote more time to developing, designing and debugging new functionality for the website and mobile interfaces, including location-based features.

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