Advertising The Work
Olivia Parker
Apr 30, 2018

Facebook 'social search party' to help find missing people

Facebook pages are often created to raise awareness of missing people; now a campaign by the Australian charity MPAN hopes to use the social network's recognition algorithms to actively search for them, too.

MPAN's website, invisiblefriends.com.au, features pictures of the missing people with links to 'add' them as friends on Facebook

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