Instagram and Amber Alert team up to put breaking information into your scroll

Image caption: With the new Ambert Alert function, Instagram users have immediate access to potentially life-saving information. Image credit: Meta / Instagram / NCMEC. Article by Chase DiBenedetto. Mashable – June 1, 2022.

Amber Alert, the nationwide alert service for missing children, will now put breaking emergency information directly into your Instagram scroll — a collaboration between the social media app and several children’s safety organizations in honor of Global Missing Children’s Day. The alert, which is an acronym for “America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response,” was first instituted by Texas law enforcement in 1996 after the abduction (and later death) of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman. The alert system expanded nationwide in […]

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