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Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, a neuroscientist and professor, shared her experience with ovarian cancer on Twitter, showing how social media can be a powerful tool to connect and educate on chronic or serious illnesses.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg also announced that the company will be using WhatsApp's chatbots to help with vaccine registration. 

Alongside other efforts, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest will all surface support materials based on users' searches and posts.

The former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health will forge partnerships to bring more high-quality, credible medical information to YouTube.

The social media giant is also planning on giving researchers aggregated and anonymized mobility data. 

Vasileios Nittas, doctoral candidate at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, looks at the impact of social media and digital self-tracking tools on public health.

When users search for vaccine information on Pinterest they will get information from sources like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control. 

Dr Victoria Betton, founder and managing director of mHabitat, will be speaking about this and related issues at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European conference in Helsinki later this year.

Health Support group users will now be able to ask admins to anonymously post questions to the group page. 

Pages, groups and ads whose content includes "verifiable vaccine hoaxes" will be taking a backseat.