The 2015 Paris terrorist attacks were the first non-natural disaster event for which Facebook implemented Safety Check, a feature that was controversially not activated for suicide bombings in Beirut earlier that week or in Syria, where in 2015 alone, there were 55,219 civil war casualties. That Facebook first considered using Safety Check in response to an attack on European soil rather than an exponentially larger crisis in the Middle East is an example of the flaw in the concept of ____________.

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The concept of "the global village" suggests a world connected through technology where events in one part of the world are felt and responded to globally. The selective activation of Facebook's Safety Check feature reflects a flaw in this concept, as it implies a prioritization of certain events and regions over others, contradicting the idea of a uniformly connected global community.

The 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks Were the First Non-Natural Disaster