Facebook unveils new Amber Alert feature to reach people in target search areas. — -- Starting today, there's a new way you can help locate a missing child simply by checking Facebook. Facebook ...

Facebook and Instagram are steering children to explicit content even when no interest is expressed, and are enabling child predators to find and contact minors, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl ...

Underage Facebook and Instagram users are exposed to adult sex content and disturbing messages from alleged child predators — including “pictures and videos of genitalia” and six-figure offers to star ...

Meta, which includes Facebook and Instagram, is accused of facilitating and profiting off of the online solicitation, trafficking and sexual abuse of children, according to a complaint filed by the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Yet another story — this time two — about Meta’s ham-fisted approach to stopping child predators. Yet another ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, responded to a Wall Street Journal story from Friday that claimed the social media giant struggles to remove child predators and child exploitation ...

The company that owns Facebook and Instagram has for years relied on both social media platforms to keep children and teenagers engaged for as long as possible in order to gather personal data and ...

(WSAW) - The Kewaunee County Sheriff’s Office is alerting the public about a Facebook scam falsely claiming a missing child in Kewaunee. The post, shared on the Door Kewaunee Buy Sell Trade page, ...

Since at least 2019, Meta has knowingly refused to shut down the majority of accounts belonging to children under the age of 13 while collecting their personal information without their parents’ ...

Cecilia Kang covers technology policy from Washington. Natasha Singer covers children’s online privacy and tech regulation. Meta was sued by more than three dozen states on Tuesday for knowingly using ...