Why your #facebook friends are checking in at Standing Rock
October 31, 2016 | Uncategorized
Your Facebook friends aren’t actually all in North Dakota today.
The Standing Rock Indian Reservation is currently at the center of a controversy centered on members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protesting the proposed oil Dakota Access Pipeline. Protests have carried on for several months, though tensions have been especially high as of late. Just last week, police used non-lethal tactics such as pepper spray and rubber bullets to dispel protestors; 141 people were arrested.
Today on Facebook, efforts to disrupt police intervention went viral with the following instructions circling on Facebook. The message urges users to check-in to the location in an effort to “overwhelm and confuse” officers.
Facebook introduced…
