Natalie Gagliordi is a senior writer for Red Ventures based in Louisville, Kentucky, covering business technology for ZDNet.
The update is part of the company's years-long goal to rebuild its core services around encryption, privacy and interoperability.
The company is aiming to personalize Facebook's core service for the modern-day college experience.
The social network is trying to ease fears that its platform has become a tool for spreading Russian propaganda, starting with the 2016 US presidential election.
With technology improvements, 22.5 million pieces of content were removed from Facebook for community standards violations in Q2.
Cox left Facebook last March amid the company's efforts to become a more privacy-focused platform.
Mark Zuckerberg expects that about 50% of Facebook's workforce will work remotely within the next five to 10 years.
Giphy is expected to retain its own branding and its APIs and GIF database will remain openly available to a wider ecosystem.
The heat maps show an estimated percentage of symptomatic people in every US county based on data from a CMU Delphi Research Center survey taken by a sampling of Facebook users.
The goal is to put information from authoritative sources in front of Facebook users, the company said.
The e-commerce giant said it was joining Libra in hopes of improving commerce on a global scale.