The Facebook activated the “Safety Check” function on Sunday for the first time in the United States since the terrorist attack at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
The Safety Check feature was first activated in October of 2014, allowing Facebook users to declare that they are safe after a natural disaster or a critical event. The feature allows searches for those who do not have access to the affected area.
In Orlando now, for those who didn't read the morning news, a terrorist armed with an automatic weapon killed 50 people in a packed gay club on Sunday. THE police killed the Pulse nightclub terrorist, identified as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old Florida resident and citizen of USA.
The incident quickly became a top popular theme on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #PrayforOrlando.
Last year, Facebook pledged to trigger Safety Check more often during disasters in response to the criticisms that while it allowed its operation after the terrorist attacks of the Islamic State in Paris did not operate the service a day earlier when a bomb killed at least 43 people in Beirut.