Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids
Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger Kids
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 21, 201812m 25s
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Show Notes
In December, when Facebook launched Messenger Kids, an app for pre-teens and children as young as 6, the company stressed that it had worked closely with leading experts in order to safeguard younger users. What Facebook didn’t say is that many of those experts had received funding from Facebook. Equally notable are the experts Facebook did not consult.
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