https://medium.com/cheddar/why-facebook-is-mapping-the-entire-worlds-population-e44ea816c4f8

Alex HeathBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingApr 9Photo: FacebookFacebook has the goal of eventually saturating the entire world’s population with its services.

That strategy was on display Tuesday, when the social network announced that it had used artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to build a hi-res population map for the entire continent of Africa.