Florida officials filed suit Monday against Snap Inc., which owns Snapchat, alleging it has been "openly defying" state law aimed at protecting young minors.

Snapchat is a primary platform for online predators who use “sextortion” schemes to coerce minors into sending graphic images and videos of themselves and then use the explicit material as ...

The lawsuit also alleges that internal complaints were made by Snap "that identifying and protecting minors from sexually explicit content ... nor unique to Snapchat and are issues the platform ...

A Bucks County man is accused of using Snapchat and Instagram to extort sexually explicit photos and videos from at least nine underage girls ... that complaint and the content of what he was ...

Investigators said he spoke with underage girls on the Snapchat app. They found “hundreds of photographs and videos of what appeared to be juvenile females performing sexual acts in bedrooms ...

Authorities say David Silva, 35, paid underage girls to send him sexually explicit material via Snapchat over a number of months last year. Silva, who lives in Chelmsford, was arrested earlier ...

BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A Logan County man is accused of sending sexually explicit messages to an underage girl on Snapchat, court records said. Mark Justin Mendez, 37, of Chapmanville is ...

Instagram is once again rolling out safety features for underage users ... though not the content of those messages. This month, Snapchat started letting 16- and 17-year-old users post publicly ...

NORRISTOWN — A Lower Merion man who admitted to having indecent contact with an underage girl he met on the social media app Snapchat will be under court supervision for five years. Zachary ...