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The World Economic Forum produced a short video about our effort to bring connectivity to the currently unconnected. The high-resolution settlement layer (HRSL) data is released through Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN): https://ciesin.columbia.edu/data/hrsl/ You can learn more about this project here:... https://code.facebook.com//connecting-the-world-with-bett/ https://code.facebook.com//open-population-datasets-and-o/
Our recent note on cross-country friendships in Europe, which have been growing and display an interesting annual pattern: https://research.fb.com/facebook-friendships-in-europe/
Our latest collaboration with researchers at UC San Diego and Yale shows that online social interactions are linked to longer life, much as offline social interactions are.