Meta will offer some of its data to third-party researchers through Center for Open Science partnership

Meta is teaming up with the Center for Open Science (COS) to start a pilot program that studies "topics related to well-being." It looks like the program will dive into our social media data, but on a voluntary basis, as COS says it will use a "privacy-preserving" dataset provided by Meta for the study. The agency says the study should help people understand "how different factors may or may not impact well-being and inform productive conversations about how to help people thrive." The specifics...