Fri 03 June 2022:
Instagram, a Meta-owned photo-sharing platform, has announced the addition of AMBER Alerts, which would allow users to read and post alerts of missing children in their area.
In the coming weeks, this functionality will be fully available in 25 countries, including South Africa, Taiwan, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, among others.
“We are bringing AMBER Alerts to Instagram for the first time,” the company said in a blogpost.
“This feature was developed in partnership with organisations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the US, the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, the National Crime Agency in the UK, the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico, the Australian Federal Police and more,” it added.
Since 2015, AMBER Alerts on Facebook have been successful in helping authorities find and quickly locate missing children.
With this update, if an AMBER Alert is activated by law enforcement and you are in the designated search area, the alert will now appear in your Instagram feed.
The alert will include important details about the child such as a photo, description, location of the abduction and any other available information that can be provided. People can also share the alert with friends to further spread the word.
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