Facebook’s Messenger Kids app—the kind of app you put on your child’s device to ensure they can only talk to approved contacts—had a not-so-helpful bug that allowed strangers to interact with kids.

Facebook has an age limit of 13, though it's easy to lie about your age. Facebook Messenger Kids has an age limit of just 6. This week the company launched more ways for parents to keep a close eye ...

Facebook is basically always in the news for some privacy concern or another. In one such case, they—rightfully so—caught a lot of flak last summer when its Messenger Kids app inadvertently allowed ...

Social distancing doesn’t mean social isolation. It’s important to keep in touch with friends and family, and Messenger from Facebook is here to help. Yes, you need a Facebook account, but it’s ...

Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users Facebook parent company Meta has launched new activities on its Messenger ...

Facebook has now responded to a letter penned by two U.S. senators regarding an error in the Messenger Kids app. Written by Vice President Kevin Martin, the letter is ...

Two Democratic senators sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, expressing concern about what they called a "design flaw" in the Facebook Messenger for Kids app. The app is ...

Facebook's Messenger Kids app is meant to offer "safer and more fun video calls and messaging" for children under the age 13. Now it has been revealed the app allowed children to talk to strangers. As ...

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U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access to private user data that it provided to ...