Facebook fails to keep Messenger Kids' safety promise
Facebook's messaging app for under 13s, Messenger Kids -- which launched two years ago pledging a "private" chat space for kids to talk with contacts specifically approved by their parents -- has run into an embarrassing safety issue. The Verge obtained messages sent by Facebook to an unknown number of parents of users of the app informing them the company had found what it couches as "a technical error," which allowed a friend of a child to create a group chat with them in the app which invited one or more of the second child's parent-approved friends -- i.e. Facebook did not make a public disclosure of the safety issue.