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    Your Facebook check-in won't help North Dakota protestors

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    Andrew Dalton
    Andrew Dalton
    10.31.2016

    There's a new viral message making its way through your Facebook friends' status updates today. The copy-paste chain letter message claims that police in Morton County, North Dakota are using Facebook check-ins to target demonstrators and disrupt protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while also calling on everyone to check in at the location "to overwhelm and confuse" law enforcement officials. Unfortunately for everyone at home, the rumor is false and status-update-based activism will do little to actually support the protestors' cause.