Facebook begins sharing more location data with COVID-19 researchers and asks users to self-report symptoms

A Facebook co-location map for the United States. It could help illustrate the likeliness of the disease to spread.| Facebook Facebook is expanding a program that grants researchers access to data about movement patterns in an effort to help improve our understanding of the spread of COVID-19, the company said today. Data for Good, which uses aggregated, anonymized data from Facebook’s apps to inform academic research, will now grant access to three new maps for forecasting the disease&rs