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It wasn't long ago that Facebook was being criticized for not enabling Safety Check:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/15/facebook-says-it-will-enab...

>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to turning on Safety Check in more human disasters going forward, responding to criticism that the company turned on its safety feature for Paris but not for Beirut and other bombings.

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raleighm|8 years ago

No, they were criticized for inconsistently using safety check (for Paris and not Beirut). That's a very different thing.

bogomipz|8 years ago

The phrase "responding to criticism" appears twice in your link and "the criticism" appears once. There are no sources for the actual criticism or where it appeared, it's like an abstract thing. Such is Techcrunh

rabboRubble|8 years ago

Here is a case where FB was criticized for not turning on their safety check feature. I've seen similar for events in Africa that went without FB's safety check feature being turned on.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/facebook-criticised-...

Edit: Found the African event:

https://qz.com/638428/facebook-is-being-criticized-for-not-a...