--- title: Ebola: Facebook Will Encourage Social Media Users to Fight Virus description: Facebook announced a new initiative on Thursday that it hopes will encourage its massive user base to donate and help tackle Ebola canonical: https://time.com/3560615/facebook-joins-ebola-fight/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-06T13:52:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:03:36.879Z article:section: Health og:title: Facebook Wants You to Help Fight Ebola og:description: Over the next week, a donation prompt will appear atop your News Feed og:url: https://time.com/3560615/facebook-joins-ebola-fight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43a4da17f5567d00/69876475428a9e7087cc4e95/facebook-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=740&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 740 og:image:height: 416 og:image:alt: Facebook Ebola og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook Wants You to Help Fight Ebola twitter:description: Over the next week, a donation prompt will appear atop your News Feed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43a4da17f5567d00/69876475428a9e7087cc4e95/facebook-ebola.jpg?branch=production&width=740&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Facebook Wants You to Help Fight Ebola > Sponsored content. 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Beyond that, Facebook is working with UNICEF to spread key information about Ebola symptoms and treatment and collaborating with NetHope in order to provide emergency voice and data services for health and aid workers in the three hardest-hit countries: Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The Ebola response in West Africa has seen a smaller flow of individual [charitable donations](http://time.com/money/3551593/best-ways-donate-charity-ebola/) than other recent relief efforts. An [analysis](http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/07/pf/ebola-donations/) by the CNNMoney last month found that the American Red Cross had raised $486 million in the wake of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, while it had raised just $100,000 in individual donations toward combatting Ebola, aside from a $2.8 million foundation contribution. 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