Facebook button to aid ebola battle fund

Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight ebola by adding a button designed to make it easier for its users to donate to charities battling the disease.

The social media company is also deploying 100 satellite communication terminals to boost internet and phone services to affected areas in West Africa, where the disease has killed nearly 5,000 people.

The programmes come on the heels of a $25m (€20m) donation last month by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention toward the ebola response.