Facebook's Zuckerberg says user control of Safety Check coming

On Monday, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped an unexpected piece of news in Italy on a topic currently at the top of the country's collective conscious: safety. 

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During an hour-long question and answer session in Rome, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is working on a way to allow users to activate its Safety Check instead of only allowing the company to activate the feature.  

The subject came up after an attendee asked Zuckerberg, "Is [Safety Check] going to change in the future? Will users be able to activate it on their own, perhaps to alert other people?" Read more...

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