Zuckerberg's dating service

Zuckerberg's dating service takes on Tinder

But Mark Zuckerberg also took the opportunity to unveil a dating service among other new products at his firm's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California.

He told his audience that the match-making feature would take privacy issues in mind and would launch "soon".

The company can ill afford another data scandal as it continues to be embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica affair.

"There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single," said Mr Zuckerberg.