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Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] nik282000@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's nice that an ad company lets us know when we might accidentally die but, yeah, not a first line of defense. Local government should be beating commercial sources to the punch every time vital information needs to go out.

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