{"id":280268,"date":"2016-12-28T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280268"},"modified":"2016-12-28T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T08:02:20","slug":"facebook-safety-check-creates-false-alarm-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/facebook-safety-check-creates-false-alarm-in-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Safety Check creates false alarm in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Facebook users in Bangkok were falsely alerted to an &#8220;explosion&#8221; in the Thai capital, after the social network activated its Safety Check feature.<\/p>\n<p>It allows Facebook users in danger zones to mark themselves as safe, but in this instance was triggered by a protester throwing firecrackers.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said it relied on a &#8220;trusted third party to confirm the incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the way it was labelled misled many online as people started sharing false news of a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has recently faced criticism for allowing fake news to proliferate.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What actually happened in Bangkok<\/h2>\n<p>On Tuesday, a protester threw small firecrackers at a government building in Bangkok (link in Thai).<\/p>\n<p>According to Facebook, this triggered the Safety Check feature at about 21:00 local time which created a page titled &#8220;The Explosion in Bangkok, Thailand&#8221; and people started marking themselves as safe.<\/p>\n<p>The page also pulled in a link from a website called bangkokinformer.com referencing a BBC breaking news video about an explosion in Bangkok, but the video was in fact taken in 2015 in reference to a blast at the Erawan shrine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/81DD\/production\/_93154233_ps.png\" alt=\"Printscreen on Twitter taken from Saksith Saiyasombut\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><span class=\"story-image-copyright\">@SAKSITHCNA\/TWITTER<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>The safety check feature was later deactivated.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook users in Bangkok were falsely alerted to an &#8220;explosion&#8221; in the Thai capital, after the social network activated its Safety Check feature. 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