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Facebook needs to kill its new chat app for kids

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 hypocrisy, then, that the company has launched Messenger Kids, its first-ever app for children under the age of 13.

Read the full article here: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-linn-facebook-kids-messenger-20180221-story.html 

Topics

  • New media

Categories

  • integritet
  • integrity
  • invasion of privacy
  • messaging
  • privacy concerns
  • protecting privacy
  • social media platforms
  • social monitoring
  • social networks
  • big data

Contacts

Elizabeth Perry

Press contact Chief Marketing Officer Marketing & Communication

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