Last year, Facebook introduced a tool called “Safety Check,” which gave people a simple and easy way to check on their loved ones during a crisis or disaster. Facebook built the first version of this Safety Check tool after the massive tsunami hit Japan in March 2011. And since October 2014, when the official tool launched, Facebook had only enabled “Safety Check” five times. But that was prior to this past week. Facebook has activated the tool twice since: after the horrific...
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