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by onewaystreet 3284 days ago
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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No, they were criticized for inconsistently using safety check (for Paris and not Beirut). That's a very different thing.
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
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...

>"Lebanese blogger Joey Ayoub, who studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, wrote in a blog post on Saturday: “These have been two horrible nights. The first took the lives of over 40 in Beirut, the second took the lives of over 100 in Paris.

Mr Ayoub’s blog post has been shared over 10,000 times on Facebook, according to Aljazeera."

One person sits down and takes the time to be thoughtful and compose actual criticism. 10K do nothing but click a link to share it. Is that the same as 10,0001 individual criticisms?