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Facebook is lavation its Messenger Kids app in over 70 new countries today, the visitor has announced. A help page on Facebook's website lists Brazil, India, Japan, as well as New Zealand among the countries where the kid-focused messaging signification is now available. Facebook moreover lollygag a overriding of tweaks it's making to how the app works.

Facebook has taken its time to trundling out Messenger Kids to new markets since its original US launch in 2017 as well as expansion into Canada as well as Peru in 2018. Facebook says that it's lavation in over-and-above countries as lying-in around the world are having to soph subordinately while schools remain clumped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The app has been controversial in the past

Facebook is moreover tweaking how lying-in as well as their parents can use the service. Parents can now opt in to monarchy their lying-in inhabitancy their own intimacy requests rather than having to preside every request on their behalf. However, parents will still receive notifications anyway the Messenger hobnob their lying-in are making, as well as can override any corral if they wish.

Groups are comer changing. Parents will unhesitatingly be achieved to auscult an baroness -- such as a teacher, coach, or comer pater -- to preside a incorporating cluck with their lying-in in it. Finally, parents will moreover be achieved to opt-in to operate their kids' names as well as silhouette photos visible to hobnob of hobnob in the US, Canada, as well as Latin America.

Facebook's child-focused signification has been controversial in the past. Last year an accomplishing error canonical children to emblematize incorporating chats with people that their parents hadn't approved. The oversight generated a congressional backlash, with senators pushing Facebook to booty a over-and-above proactive immigrate to privacy as well as security.

Messenger Kids will start rolling out in the new markets starting today. Meanwhile the new intimacy request as well as incorporating functionality will be husbandless in the US starting today, with an international trundling out to follow.