{"id":2421,"date":"2016-03-28T02:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/28\/facebook-asks-people-nowhere-near-pakistan-explosion-if-theyre-ok\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T02:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T18:07:07","slug":"facebook-asks-people-nowhere-near-pakistan-explosion-if-theyre-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/28\/facebook-asks-people-nowhere-near-pakistan-explosion-if-theyre-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook asks people nowhere near Pakistan explosion if they're OK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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People in the UK, Lebanon and the U.S. are a little confused about Facebook’s Safety Check settings.<\/p>\n

After an explosion at\u00a0Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, Pakistan, Facebook activated its Safety Check software, which enables people to locate family members in areas affected by disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Facebook turns on Safety Check for Brussels attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The explosion has at least 44 dead<\/a>\u00a0and 91 injured, though\u00a0local reports<\/a>\u00a0put the numbers much higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly after the explosion, social media was buzzing with people who were nowhere near Pakistan being asked to contact their loved ones via Facebook.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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People in the UK, Lebanon and the U.S. are a little confused about Facebook’s Safety Check settings. After an explosion at\u00a0Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, Pakistan, Facebook activated its Safety Check software, which enables people to locate family members in areas … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1671,1596,1672,783,1670],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-safety-check","tag-social-media","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}