Facebook has elected to give data from some users who took their own lives to researchers studying warning signs for suicide, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The researchers are affiliated with SAVE.org, a national suicide prevention foundation, and the project is initially focusing on “at least 20 people in a Minnesota county who died by suicide.” As a Facebook spokesperson told Bloomberg about its role in the initiative:
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