Thousands of supporters of a Native American tribe and environmental activists fighting construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota turned to social media on Oct 31 in a bid to confuse police who they believe are using it to track the protesters.
More than 4,600 people used Facebook's location tagging feature to "check in" on Monday afternoon at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near the site of the US$3.8bil (RM15.93bil) Dakota Access pipeline, vastly boosting the numbers actually there.
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