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Here’s What I Tried On While Shopping At The Snapchat AR Store
This week, social media made me do this.

Reddit, Snapchat, And TikTok Have Been Removing Content Featuring Andrew Tate And Other Misogynist Influencers For Months
“It's an enormous, massive group of people — mostly young, disgruntled straight men — who are at war with their own masculinity.”

TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram And Snapchat, Former Employees Say
The China-based company scraped public accounts and then duplicated them on Flipagram, a predecessor to TikTok, according to four former employees and documents viewed by BuzzFeed News.

The Supreme Court Ruled In Favor Of A Girl Who Said “Fuck Cheer” On Snapchat
A cheerleader originally sued her high school when it kicked her off the team for posting "fuck cheer" on Snapchat.

Snapchat Removed Its Controversial Speed Filter That Was Linked To Fatal Car Crashes
Families of two young men who were killed in a 2017 crash alleged in a lawsuit that the app's feature encouraged dangerous speeding that led to the accident.

Snapchat Will Now Pay People For Posts
A new section features public snaps, with money given out for the ones that go viral.

Snapchat Decided To Make A Filter For Juneteenth That Asked People To "Smile" To Break Chains
"We are investigating why this mistake occurred so that we can avoid it in the future."

Twitter And Snapchat Are Reining Trump In. Critics Want Them To Do It To Politicians Around The World.
“Politicians in many places have posted worse."

A Kidnapped Teen Was Rescued After Using Snapchat To Tell Her Friends Where To Find Her
Police arrested three men in connection with the kidnapping and assault of the 14-year-old girl.

I'm Not Cool Enough To Wear Snapchat's New Spectacles
The wearable camera's first-person footage is wonderfully — and surprisingly — personal. But Snapchat's new 3D effects don't add much.

A Man Allegedly Posted A Sex Tape On Snapchat Because He Thought His Sexual Partner Didn't Watch His Dogs
The 26-year-old Florida man allegedly told deputies he posted the video “out of spite.”

A Male Student Used Snapchat's Gender Filter To Pose As An Underage Girl Online And Allegedly Caught A Cop
A California police officer has been arrested after exchanging explicit messages with someone he thought was a 16-year-old girl.

Here's What One Man Learned When He Used His Gender-Swapped Snapchat Photo On Tinder
Troy Sey said his authentic Tinder profile receives "maybe a few" swipes a week. Within 20 minutes of uploading his womanized Snapchat selfie, he received more than 100 right swipes from men.

A Judge Ruled That A High School Cheerleader's "Fuck Cheer" Snapchat Post Is Protected Speech
The student was dismissed from the cheerleading squad at Mahanoy Area High School after posting “fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything” on Snapchat.

A Teen Girl Allegedly Stabbed And Killed A Former Classmate And Then Posted About It On Snapchat
Kaitlin Leonor Castilleja, 18, died early Friday morning from her stab wounds after the two got into a fight in the suspect's driveway, police said.

The College Students Who Posted A Blackface Snapchat Video Are Leaving Their School
"It very clearly is racist," the school's president said. "We should call it what it is."

The University Of Oklahoma Is Investigating A Racist Snapchat Video Of A Student In Blackface
The video shows a white student smearing black paint on her face and using the n-word.

People Were Outraged After "New York City" Was Replaced With "Jewtropolis" On Snapchat's Snap Map
The name change appears to be the fault of Mapbox, the third-party mapping data startup that Snapchat uses to power its Snap Map.

Some Doctors Think Snapchat Filters And Facetune Could Be Inspiring Plastic Surgery Requests
Selfies and face filters have changed the way we see ourselves — but some physicians argue that this could be a problem.

A Man Pleaded Guilty To Beating Up His Girlfriend For Downloading Snapchat
"No woman or man should ever feel pain from the one they love," the woman, Soledad Torres, told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday.

Snapchat's Stock Is Tanking
The stock fell as much as 17% after earnings missed expectations.

Kylie Jenner’s Tweet Isn't Snapchat's Only Problem
“sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?”

Here's How To Get Rid Of That New Snapchat Update Everyone Hates
Calm down, teens. You can reverse it.

Teens Are Losing It Over Snapchat's Unpopular App Redesign
"me guarding my non-updated snapchat w my life"

Snapchat's Redesign Won't Save It
The same app with the same problems, now with reordered features.

These Middle Schoolers Were Caught Simulating Sex Acts In A Racially Charged Snapchat Video
The video, originally posted on Snapchat, reportedly showed white middle school football players humping their black peers, alongside racially charged captions.

Snapchat Use Is Down 34% Among Top Influencers
Data on top influencers shows they’ve been posting less and less on Snapchat in the last six months.

This Guy Used A Simple Trick To Figure Out Snapchat's Big Announcement A Day Early
Tomorrow's big announcement... today?

Two Employees Have Been Removed After Flipping Off Newborns And Making One Dance To Rap Music In Snapchat Posts
One Snapchat post said, "How I currently feel about these mini Satans"

Snapchat Ups Its Augmented Reality Game With 3D Bitmoji
Your digital self comes to life via new, animated bitmoji that you can drop into the real world (on your phone).