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by Amelia Scott — 4 years ago in Security 2 min. read
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While Facebook is not an actual news organization, it is flexing its capacity to reach users quicker than local news channels in certain time-sensitive instances.

Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is rolling out a new tool to help alert you and your neighbors of dangerous conditions, for example active shooters in your town. It is like the social media edition of your smartphone crisis alerts program, which informs you about Amber Alerts and flood warnings on your own town.

Facebook analyzed its new neighborhood alarms tool in select cities within the last year. Now the technology making is making the tool available to city authorities and first responders nationwide in order that they may let users in a certain field know about possible dangers.

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Following a year in select cities, Facebook’s local alarms tool has been opened up to anybody using a page connected with city governments, emergency management agencies and first responders beginning Tuesday.

“When government mark posts as neighborhood alarms, we greatly enhance their reach to ensure individuals residing in an affected community are considerably more inclined to view them” Facebook stated in a blog post. “We send alerts to individuals residing in the affected region,” and you will realize that the regional alert index near this post on your News Feed.

Thus far, local and police governments have used the alarms to inform the general public about flash flood warnings, mandatory evacuations, missing people reports, water main breaks, busy shooters, street closures, winter storms, and extreme temperatures warnings, bomb threats and a lot more.

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To test the tool’s efficiency, Facebook surveyed 2,500 users who paid attention to local alerts. The app found 73% of the posts provided new information they had not yet seen in the news or anywhere else.

It comes on the heels of Facebook’s choice to employ a”small team” of journalists to curate its forthcoming News Tab that is set to start testing later this season. A 2018 Pew Research Study discovered that 1 in 5 U.S. adults receives news from social networking, marginally higher than the share that regularly gets advice from print papers.

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