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Facebook Activates Safety Check for Paris, Not Beirut

HeadlineNov 16, 2015

While Facebook activated its safety check feature for the Paris attacks, allowing residents to mark themselves “safe” to reassure family and friends, the feature was not activated for the attacks in Beirut.

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