regulating underage users and preventing them from harmful content is one of the biggest issues for many tech companies. Now, in a recent development, Snapchat has reportedly found itself in hot ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the time, Facebook was facing fierce competition from a rising Snapchat ... to protect underage users from harmful content that has fueled anxiety, depression, body image issues and even ...

According to the complaint, the New Mexico Department of Justice launched an undercover investigation in recent months to prove that Snapchat ... content," and several "attempted to coerce the ...

Snapchat says it is working the government to create a new age verification system that could be used across platforms to keep underage children from accessing inappropriate content and services.

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 ...