Snapchat brushed aside warnings of child harm, documents show

Newly unsealed documents show that Snapchat ignored employee concerns over the app facilitating harms against minors — including sextortion, sexual exploitation and the sale of drugs and weapons.

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Snapchat is a super popular social media app for teenagers. And because of that, it also attracts a lot of bad actors. Now, unsealed internal documents show that employees have been raising alarms about this problem for years. NPR’s Dara Kerr reports. And a warning – this story contains information about child sexual abuse.

DARA KERR, BYLINE: New Mexico’s attorney general, Raul Torrez, had a hunch. He suspected

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