Another Facebook flaw: this allowed children to communicate with unapproved users in Messenger Kids

Nail Facebook fails in Messenger Kids This allowed non-parent-approved users to interact with the boys in the group's chat rooms.

Stalkers, pedophiles and adults face the challenges of Momo or Blue whale they take advantage of the opportunity to reach minors without their parents knowing it. In that sense, at the launch of the tool, the social network had promised that it would act as a private, small and secure area. However, according to a message from the company itself, this has not happened for an indefinite period.

Messenger Kids is the Facebook messaging app specially designed for users under 13 years old, which included parental controls so that adults would know the users with whom the children were interacting.

The fault allowed that if a baby participated in a group discussion created by another approved boy and that unknown contacts were not activated at home, the first ones could join the group and communicate with them despite the configuration set by their own parents.

According to the site The edgeis a copy of the message that the social network has sent to thousands of parents to warn them of the problem:

"We found a technical error that allowed the friend of [Nombre del niño] [Nombre del amigo] create a group discussion with [Nombre del niño] and one or more of the friends approved by the parents of [Nombre del amigo]. We want you to know that we disabled this group discussion and we make sure that group conversations like this are not allowed in the future. If you have questions about Messenger Kids and Online Safety, visit our Help Center and Messenger Kids' Parental Control. We would also appreciate your comments, "said the text.

A spokesman for Facebook confirmed to Europa Press who recently notified parents whose children have a Messenger Kids account a "technical error"which, as they have detected," have affected a small number of group discussions. "

"We have disabled affected cats and provided parents with additional resources on Messenger Kids and online safety," said the social network spokesperson.