Zuckerberg details the ways Facebook and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are responding to COVID-19

Mark Zuckerberg has outlined one in every of the maximum steps that Fb and his family’s non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are taking to resolution the spread of each and every the unconventional coronavirus referred to as COVID-19 and viral flawed data regarding the illness, in a observation posted earlier this night time time.…
Mark Zuckerberg has outlined some of the steps that Facebook and his family’s non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are taking to respond to the spread of both the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 and viral misinformation about the illness, in a statement posted earlier this evening.…Original article
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