Instagram on Wednesday began rolling out an Amber Alert feature on its platform to notify users of missing children in their area
"We know that the chances of finding a missing child increase when more people are on the lookout, especially in the first few hours," Emily Vacher, the director of trust and safety at Instagram's parent company Meta, said in a blog post announcing the new feature."With this update, if an Amber
The alerts are"rare and specific to the search area," Vacher added, saying that if a user gets one,"it means there is an active search for a missing child nearby."
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