Facebook is making its Safety Check feature more stable and easier to deploy, which means that you might start seeing more Safety Checks on the platform. Before today, engineers had to type code ...

In June 2016, Facebook began testing community-triggered Safety Checks, like in response to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and protests against police brutality in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The announcement of Community Help comes at the same time as a shift in Facebook's Safety Check feature, which is now completely community-triggered, and no longer activated by the company.When a ...

Facebook’s new Community Help tool lets users offer and find help during emergency crises. Safety Checks will now be community-triggered only ...

Facebook’s Safety Check has been deployed during and in the aftermath of terrorist attacks and natural disasters, ... but extrapolated to Facebook’s community would amount to 360,000,000 ...

Facebook launches Crisis Response hub to help users during disasters and attacks. It contains Safety Check, Community Help, and new fundraising tools ...

Facebook only launched a Safety Check for about 11 percent of community activations. By localizing Safety Check, the community can decide whether an event should be considered an emergency.

On Wednesday, Facebook added a new component to Safety Check called Community Help, which provides a semi-public message board for survivors. It’s a lot like an internet forum.

Facing unprecedented scrutiny, Facebook has released its Community Standards guidelines. Instead of overly general statements of what the social media platform allows, now you can read the rules.

Facebook has many pros and cons, as most of us know. Two recent studies have found that Facebook can create a surprisingly effective "safety net" in times of crisis and distress.