SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Facebook acknowledged Tuesday that a flaw in its Messenger Kids service allowed children get into group chats with people who were not approved by their parents. The leading social network said it has been shutting down the group chats involved and notifying thousands of parents that their children many have unintentionally connected with strangers. "We recently notified some parents of Messenger Kids account users about a technical error that we detected affecting a small number of group chats," Facebook said in response to an AFP inquiry. "We turned off the affected chats and provided parents with additional resources on Messenger Kids and online safety." The social media giant said at the time that it created the app as a safe environment because many children had been going online without safeguards.

Source: Philippine Star July 23, 2019 17:37 UTC