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Facebook to show AMBER Alerts in users newsfeeds
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Jan 14, 2015
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Facebook to show AMBER Alerts in users newsfeeds
While AMBER alerts have run on radio, tv and those digital signs on the freeway, they should start showing up in another familiar place - Facebook.
An example of Facebook's AMBER alert integration.
An example of Facebook's AMBER alert integration.
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While AMBER alerts have run on radio, tv and those digital signs on the freeway, they should start showing up in another familiar place - Facebook.

For nearly twenty years now, AMBER alerts have been used to help find children who have been abducted. These messages run on radio, tv and of course those digital signs on the freeway. Now, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is taking Amber Alerts to a new platform on Facebook. Alex Cohen speaks with Kurt Wagner - Social Media Reporter for Re/code.