Facebook turns on Safety Check feature after Manchester explosion

Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature following an explosion in Manchester Arena that killed 22 people and left more than 50 injured.
 
Police and fans close to the Manchester Arena.Dave Thompson/Getty Images
The explosion occurred around 10:30 p.m. BST (5:30 p.m. ET) as thousands of people were leaving an Ariana Grande concert.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said officials are "working to establish the full details" of the what police believe is an "appalling" terrorist attack.
Safety Check asks people in the area of the incident if they are safe, and publicly marks them as such if they say they are. Users can see which of their friends have marked themselves safe, and asks those in the area if they are.
Facebook has activated Safety Check more than 300 times in the last year, according to CNET. It was also turned on during the Westminster terror attack and after Hurricane Matthew ripped through the Caribbean, killing hundreds of people on the island of Haiti. It was first deployed in 2014.

Twitter co-founder apologizes for helping elect Trump

Evan Williams apologized if Twitter helped out Donald Trump in the White House 

President has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land

The 45-year-old entrepreneur said he also believes the internet is broken

He believes things are getting worse, as people use Facebook to record in real-time, suicides, beatings and murder

A co-founder of Twitter says he's sorry if the popular social media platform helped put Donald Trump in the White House, as the president has suggested.
Evan Williams said Twitter's role in Trump's populist rise is 'a very bad thing', during an interview with the New York Times. The president has credited Twitter with his election to the highest office in the land.
Trump told Fox News in March: 'I think that maybe I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter, because I get such a fake press, such a dishonest press.'
When confronted with the notion that Twitter played a part in helping Trump get elected, Williams said: 'If it's true that he wouldn't be president if it weren't for Twitter, then yeah, I'm sorry.'