(Gray News) - Two U.S. senators have sent a letter to Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, urging the company to end Instagram’s new map feature.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, asked Zuckerberg to shut down the feature because they said it could put children at risk.

“We write to express our concern with the introduction of Instagram’s new map feature, which would allow individuals to share their location in real time with users around the world,” the letter says in part.

The new map feature rolled out earlier this week and includes a map of the U.S. showing where users are active. Users’ locations are updated every time they use the app.

Blackburn and Blumenthal argue kids could use the map feature to share their l

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