Facebook, the wildly popular social networking platform, continued to see its user base skyrocket last year, but it was also stung by a near-constant barrage of criticism from privacy advocates that ...

The Safety Check was activated for Paris attacks but not for Beirut bombings. — -- Facebook has responded to criticism it received after some users questioned why a safety check was activated for ...

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Much has been made about fake news on Facebook since the presidential election, and now bogus stories hve resulted in the triggering of the social networking site’s Safety Check feature. Users in ...

Facebook users no longer need to rely on the social network to activate its main crisis response tool. Safety Check, which lets you tell friends and family that you're safe during an emergency ...

Facebook's Safety Check feature will soon allow users to start fundraisers to directly help victims of a particular crisis. » RELATED: Facebook introduces rainbow reaction to celebrate LGBT Pride ...

Facebook today announced a series of improvements for its Safety Check feature – the service that allows Facebook users to communicate about their safety to friends and family during a crisis. Most ...

Facebook’s Safety Check feature was activated today, following news that a fire had engulfed a 24-storey block of flats in West London. At least six people are reported to have died in the blaze, with ...

Facebook is setting up a new advisory board to improve user safety on its social networking site, it said on Sunday. Online safety organizations Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, ...

Facebook's Safety Check is a useful feature, but its implementation has experienced some bumps along the way. Now, the company hope to smooth out some of those rough edges with new features it ...