Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Facebook just rolled out an interactive map showing how many people have reported symptoms of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, in counties across the US. The map uses data from a ...

Facebook has posted an interactive map that tracks where people are self-reporting symptoms of coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, by county. The map could help give public health officials and ...

When natural disasters strike, people generally have two options: stay or flee. Either way, you can bet they’re keeping their phone with them. Facebook has been capitalizing on that behavior since ...

Facebook is trying to use its hoards of data to combat the spread of infectious diseases. It is sharing maps showing human movement and population density with researchers and health organizations ...

Helping friends meet up offline has been a massive missed opportunity for Facebook. Whether because the brand is too creepy or the politely opt-in 2015 rollout of its location sharing feature wasn’t ...

Facebook said it will open its Map With AI service to the OpenStreetMap project, which aims to be an open source mapping data source. In conjunction with the Map With AI service, Facebook also said it ...