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The Facebook app "Messenger Kids" released several feature updates as well as a news alert that they'd expanded service to a number of new regions. They've suggested that they've responded to parent ...

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A new report from The Verge details how Facebook’s Messenger Kids application has been failing at its single purpose. The report explains that by using group chats, children were able to enter ...

Soon after everyone barricaded themselves at home in March, Cheryl Franklin’s Facebook started to ping. Again, again and again. She had begun allowing her son Jacob, 7, to use Messenger Kids, a ...

Cassie Wilson got a strange notification the other day on her phone from Facebook Messenger, informing her that her cousin had reached out. On its own, that wasn’t strange, but her cousin is 10 years ...

Facebook launched Messenger Kids back in 2017, with the aim of allowing parents to ensure that their children aren’t put at risk of inappropriate contact or bullying. The company today says that it is ...

Messenger Kids, the child-friendly version of Meta’s Messenger service (aka Facebook Messenger), is being updated with a dark mode, as well as new audio effects for voice messages, the service has ...

A "technical error" in the Messenger Kids app meant it was possible for a child to enter a group chat with friends-of-friends who hadn't been approved by their ...