The app is like training wheels for social media. It's sort of like training wheels for social media. That's a pretty accurate way of explaining what Facebook's app -- Messenger Kids -- is. It's ...

Some parents say the app helps their kids connect with family and friends. But inappropriate content has slipped through the cracks. Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social ...

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Facebook is launching a new chat app for kids, the company announced Monday. The app, called Messenger Kids, allows children to send messages and photos and video chat with specific contacts that have ...

Facebook said Monday that it will "pause" its development of Instagram Kids, a social media service for children under 13, after pushback from child advocates, parents and lawmakers. Instagram head ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Messenger Kids app mashes up features from other Facebook apps ...

BOSTON — Child-development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids. A group letter sent Tuesday to CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that younger ...

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 ...

For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat.

This week, about 100 childhood and mental health experts pleaded with Facebook to kill its new messenger app for kids. Facebook said no. The news has been trending ever since. But Messenger Kids is ...

Facebook is looking into creating an Instagram for kids. The world's largest social media network told USA TODAY Thursday it is exploring the possibility of building a version of its popular video- ...

After heated criticism of Facebook’s role in disseminating “fake news,” Mark Zuckerberg has declared that he wants to make the social media company “good for people’s well-being.” It’s the height of ...