Facebook Activates Safety Check After Bombing in Pakistan, Deals With Bug
Facebook activated its Safety Check feature Sunday after a terrorist bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, but unfortunately, the feature was also activated for users located nowhere near the affected area.
Facebook activated its Safety Check feature Sunday after a terrorist bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, but unfortunately, the feature was also activated for users located nowhere near the affected area.
Users as far away as the U.K. and U.S. received Safety Check notifications related to the explosion, which killed at least 70 people and injured nearly 300 others at Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park on Easter Sunday.
Facebook said in a post on its Disaster Response on Facebook page:
We activated Safety Check today in Lahore, Pakistan, after an explosion that took place there.
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