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Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist and professor, shared her experience with ovarian cancer on Twitter, showing how social media can be a powerful tool to connect and educate on chronic or serious illnesses.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg also announced that the company will be using WhatsApp's chatbots to help with vaccine registration.
Alongside other efforts, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest will all surface support materials based on users' searches and posts.
The former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health will forge partnerships to bring more high-quality, credible medical information to YouTube.
The social media giant is also planning on giving researchers aggregated and anonymized mobility data.
Vasileios Nittas, doctoral candidate at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, looks at the impact of social media and digital self-tracking tools on public health.
Emphasizing users' privacy, the tool aims to synthesize preventive care recommendations from major professional and federal health organizations into simple, consumer-friendly recommendations and reminders.
The social media company hopes its new photo filters and stickers will help those struggling with mental health conditions find understanding peers.
When users search for vaccine information on Pinterest they will get information from sources like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control.
The social media giant teamed up with researchers from Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation to develop short digital exercises for stress.