Facebook's AMBER Alerts tool is transforming how we find missing children

Since it launched 21 years ago after the tragic death of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman in Arlington, Texas, the AMBER Alert system has helped families and authorities successfully recover 868 missing children.

But more than 460,000 children — runaways, abductions, lost or injured kids — go missing every year in the U.S., plus many more around the world. Facebook, whose user base is now nearly 2 billion-strong, wants to leverage its expansive network to help get more children back home.

In honor of International Missing Children's Day on Thursday, Facebook released a new video explaining how its AMBER Alerts feature, which first launched in the U.S. in 2015, can help amplify the right information about missing children to the right people at the right time. Read more...