AMBER Alert launched in Slovenia to help find missing children

Roughly 500 people are reported missing in Slovenia each year, about 30% of them are minors. Finding them will now be made easier with the help an alert system launched by the US tech giant Meta in cooperation with the Slovenian police. Slovenia is only the 30th country in the world to use the AMBER Alert tool.

AMBER Alert sends an alert through Facebook and Instagram to people in areas where a missing child was last seen. Meta, which owns the two social media, says it is aware that every minute counts and will strive to send out the alerts as soon as possible.

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