The Sneaky Genius of Facebook’s New Preventative Health Tool
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/facebook-launches-new-preventative-health-tool/604567
The feature looks likely to fill gaps in care—and to further draw users into Facebook’s ecosystem. In April 2018, Facebook sent the Yale cardiologist and researcher Freddy Abnousi on a strictly confidential assignment to liaise with medical groups across the country on behalf of Building 8, Facebook’s experimental research team. Building 8—which had originally been led by Regina Dugan, the former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—worked on long-term, moonshot projects, (...)
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