Tag: AMBERALERT

Facebook is joining forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Department of Justice to broadcast Amber Alerts across the social network. Each state will soon have its own Amber Alert page, where concerned users will be able to find the latest updates on children who have gone missing in their areas. The official announcement is expected to come at a press ...

Living in the connected age -- where things like Twitter and text messaging are an accepted part of life -- is great. We're able to pass information quickly across vast distances to large amounts of people. There is the inevitable downside, though; once you get that ball of information rolling, it's almost impossible to stop. That's why, before repeating information, a little fact checking is in ...