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Facebook buildings evacuated over bomb threat
Numerous buildings on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California were evacuated Tuesday evening after local police were forwarded a tip about a bomb threat.
Police searched the area and determined there were no explosives that could be found.
“We take the safety and security of our people at Facebook extremely seriously and are glad that everyone is safe,” a spokesperson for Facebook said in a statement released to CNN. “We are working closely with local authorities to investigate this threat and further monitor the situation.”
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A number of news organisations and social media companies have received threats over the past two years, as President Donald Trump regularly calls the press the “enemy of the people” and Republican members of Congress claim that social media is biased against conservatives.
Yesterday Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee, where numerous congressmen accused the tech giant of actively manipulating search results to negatively impact conservative voices.
A 38-year-old woman named Nasim Najafi Aghdam became a folk hero for the far right after perpetrating a shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, though she injured just four people and she was the only fatality when she turned the gun on herself.
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