Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. While Facebook did not respond to my original request for comment on its ...

The map on Facebook displayed blue dots scattered across the world. When users clicked on them, live videos popped up. Timothy Ballisty, a freelance meteorologist, used to scan the live video map ...

A new interactive map created by Facebook shines a new light on the spread of the coronavirus: Rather than showing the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19, it shows how many people ...

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 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 ...

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 ...