The two package bombs that were delivered to Northeastern University in Boston Tuesday contained notes lambasting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the relationship between academic institutions and the social media giant, CNN reports.
The two packages each held a container loaded with explosives; when a University worker opened one around 7 p.m. local time Tuesday, it resulted in a loud but relatively weak device that caused minor injuries to the 45-year-old man’s hands. They were sent to the University’s Holmes Hall, where the school’s virtual reality center is located.
Police disarmed the second package. Investigators found the device was a container that had an apparent pressure switch with triggered the device when the lid was lifted. Inside the container, investigators found a note criticizing Zuckerberg and a relationship Northeastern has with Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook which is funding research into virtual reality and augmented reality.