Zuckerberg defends Facebook in "safety check" Activate attack Paris
Paris also suffered several terrorist acts on Friday night in which 129 people were killed, at least, take Facebook's decision to activate a "safety check" feature, a tool launched last year to help people caught in crisis let others know they are safe.
With more than four million members Facebook using the tool over the weekend to celebrate themselves and safe, and some 360 million notifications sent automatically to let others know their loved ones were unharmed in the incident, terrorism, and clearly showed a safety check its worth in the hours following the attack.
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However, some have questioned why the social networking giant also has not activated the following check the safety of two suicide bombings in a busy shopping street in Beirut the day before that killed at least 43 people.
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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has addressed the concerns in a letter published at the weekend.
Chief Executive Officer, said many people had "the right to request" Why do you want to run check the safety of the attacks Paris, but not from the Beirut bombing, pointing out that even in the incident in France, the company's policy was to activate it only to natural disasters.
He wrote: "You are right that there are many other important conflicts in the world and we care about all people equally, and we will work hard to help people who are suffering in many of these cases what we can."
Zuckerberg said that after reviewing the situation, and the company has now changed the policy and will activate the safety verification of the existence of "more human disasters" from hereon in.
"Safety check is a relatively new feature."
In another job expansion in a letter Zuckerberg, Executive Facebook Alex Schultz and company "to make learning tools and policies behind it better said as we go - and because the safety check is a relatively new feature for us, and we still understand how it could have been the best use of what cases."
Commission said the company decided to activate the feature during the attack Paris "We noticed a lot of activity on Facebook as events were unfolding. In the middle of the complex, unstable situation affecting many people, Facebook has become a place where people were exchanging information and looking to understand the status of their loved ones."
The site also faced accusations of selective solidarity that was launched after the French flag candidate footage Profile, which one user pay with the background graphic design to provide a solution.
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