Child-welfare organisations send open letter to Mark Zuckerberg urging him to make Facebook safer for children

Fifty child-welfare organisations have written to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg urging him to make the social-media platform safer for children.

A global group of more than 50 child-safety organisations and campaigners has urged Mark Zuckerberg to make Facebook safer for children, by sending an open letter to the social-network founder and calling for transparency on how the platform plans to tackle the issue.

Led by the NSPCC, the group has asked Facebook to publish, in full, its research on how its apps impact children's mental health and to grant access to its data to independent researchers and publish risk assessments of its products.