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The Facebook Youth Team Is Shifting Its Focus to Messenger for Kids

The LOL meme app it had been testing was shuttered

Messenger Kids debuted in December 2017Facebook
By David Cohen

February 8, 2019

Facebook still wants kids to LOL, but it wants them to do so on its Messenger for Kids application instead of via a separate app.

David Cohen

David Cohen is editor of Adweek's Social Pro Daily.

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