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Re:Safety Check for Brussels by aorth on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @08:53AM (#11336131)
Something about this bothers me too. I am trying to formulate a way to look at this that gives Facebook the benefit of the doubt, like "anyone you can help is good, even if you can't help them all"... but there's a pessimism in me that says Facebook is being opportunist.
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Re:Safety Check for Brussels by mjolk on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:15AM (#11336289)
For a site this ubiquitous, they don't need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get a few more page views -- I think this is earnestly meant as a service to others.

I don't have a Facebook account, so I can't verify, but at least on that landing page, they're not serving up advertisements.

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