Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

Messenger Kids is a messaging and video-call app for children by Facebook, similar to its Messenger but with more protections. The app, which was created in 2017 for children under 13 who cannot have ...

Facebook’s Messenger Kids app—the kind of app you put on your child’s device to ensure they can only talk to approved contacts—had a not-so-helpful bug that allowed strangers to interact with kids.

Facebook has launched a new messenger service aimed at kids. Messenger Kids is touted as a "standalone child-friendly Messenger app with parental controls baked right in." Kids do not have to have ...

While most social-networking sites and apps, including Facebook, require users to be over thirteen years of age, there seems to be a need among parents to let younger children communicate with their ...

Facebook has released its new Messenger Kids app to the Amazon App Store, making the service available to owners of its Fire line of tablets. So I grabbed one of the Fire 7 tablets we have for our ...

More than 100 public health advocates are calling on Facebook to pull the plug on its new messenger app for kids. The group sent a letter Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that says, "A growing ...

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

A coalition of organizations, led by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, has issued an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to "discontinue Messenger Kids, Facebook’s first ...