After Criticism, Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Activate Safety Check For More Human Disasters

In the last 24 hours, 4.1 million people marked themselves safe using Facebook's Safety Check, after the social media platform activated the tool for people near the terror attacks in Paris, enabling them to easily tell their friends and family that they were safe.
Facebook started developing Safety Check after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan as a way for people to "check on loved ones and get updates," according to a company blog post.
In the aftermath, Facebook has faced sharp criticism about why it didn't activate its Safety Check feature in Beirut, Lebanon, where two suicide bombers killed 43 people and wounded hundreds of others just two days earlier.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to these criticisms in a comment added to a status update: "Many people have rightfully asked why we turned on Safety Check for Paris but not for bombings in Beirut and other places.
Until yesterday, our policy was only to activate Safety Check for natural disasters.
We just changed this and now plan to activate Safety Check for more human disasters going forward as well.