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A recent report from the New York Times outlines how child pornography has exploded across the Internet, including the startling fact that two out of every three reports of child sexual abuse material involve Facebook Messenger.

A 19-year-old Missouri man raped six girls as young as 13 years old and lured them to his home using social media, police said.

A 23-year-old Wisconsin high school teacher has been accused of raping a 15-year-old student at her home and exchanging sexually explicit Snapchat messages with him for about two months, according to authorities.

Police departments across the United States are warning parents about potentially dangerous apps on their children’s smartphones, here are 15 of the top apps to watch out for.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote a letter to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, contending that the social media platform “fails to provide parents with adequate warnings about the platform’s dangers,” including adult content and child predators. 

A North Carolina high school science teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to nearly 60 sex charges and was sentenced to 31 years in prison for his crimes.

A college student seeking to catch potential sex predators on the Tinder dating app pretended to be an underage girl using Snapchat’s new gender-swapping filter. The student has reportedly caught a police officer who was allegedly seeking to engage in sexual activity with the fake 16-year-old girl.

Snapchat’s new gender-changing filter that allows people to view themselves as the opposite sex has offended some members of the transgender community, who argue that their struggle with transitioning is being downplayed by the filter, as it allows users to swap-genders for their own amusement.

The self-appointed transgender police have besieged Snapchat for a filter that shows what a person would look like as the opposite sex, alleging that the app oversimplifies gender transitioning.

A New Jersey high school has come under fire for its decision to suspend two students over their decision to post photos from a gun range on their Snapchat account.

A former Miss Kentucky turned science teacher was busted for allegedly sending pictures containing nudity to a 15-year-old boy.

According to a recent report, General Electric, Tesla Inc. and Snap Inc. are all facing accounting investigations by the DOJ and SEC.

A Hawaii-based burger joint fired two of its employees and closed briefly after a video showed an employee cooking a rat on the burger grill.

Snapchat parent company Snap is reportedly preparing to release the latest version of its Spectacles product — despite the previous models under-performing in the market.

Big Tech companies, including Facebook, Snapchat, and Spotify, are encouraging their young userbase to vote next week with a series of features.

Students dragged, kicked, and beat a Missouri high school assistant principal to the ground for trying to break up a fight, according to a video posted Tuesday.

A social media influencer is being sued for $90,000 after he failed to wear Snapchat’s Snap Spectacles a sufficient number of times after being paid $45,000 to show them off, and then refused to return the money.

Facebook released its third-quarter earnings report this week showing the company’s focus shift towards its Stories feature as user growth is flat in the U.S. and Europe lost users.

Snapchat parent company Snap CEO Evan Spiegel reportedly hired former Time Warner executive Kristen O’Hara as Snap’s Chief Business Officer, before changing his mind two days later.

JPMorgan downgraded Snapchat parent company Snap this week, with analyst Doug Anmuth expressing doubt over Snap’s plan to bring in older users.

Snapchat reportedly encouraged more than 400,000 users to register to vote for the upcoming midterm elections, with “much of the activity” in “key battleground states.”

Snap, the company behind Snapchat, issued a company memo about its future which was leaked this week.

Google plans to emulate the often copied “Stories” feature popularized by Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook as the Masters of the Universe battle for users’ attention.

Big Tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are encouraging their users to register to vote before the United States midterm elections in November.

LONDON (AP) — A judge has sentenced a Snapchat addict to 14 years in prison for orchestrating the killing of her sometime boyfriend and posting a video of him as he lay dying on a west London street.

A now former Texas educator, charged on two counts of sexual misconduct, appeared in a Houston courtroom Monday after admitting she lost her virginity to her alleged 15-year-old male victim, say police.

Snapchat apologized in a statement on Thursday after the app listed New York City as “Jewtropolis” due to its use of a third-party open-source mapping database.

The new frontier of self-image problems is being driven by unattainable filtered “selfies” taken with smartphone apps. 

An illegal alien living in northwest Arkansas is accused of raping an 11-year-old girl after convincing her to meet up with him through Snapchat.

A North Dakota middle school teacher who made students call her “Kim Kardashian” is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student and sending nude Snapchats to two underage male students.

Fatima Khan, 21, filmed her boyfriend bleeding to death outside a coffee shop in London and posted it to Snapchat with the caption, “This is what happens when you f*ck with me,” the Old Bailey has heard.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center revealed that American teenagers are losing interest in Facebook.

Snapchat removed Cosmopolitan’s new porn site known as Cosmo After Dark less than a week after it was launched following an uproar by parents over the easy access of its pornographic content to children.

“Remember, there are almost no parental controls in Snapchat,” writes Chris McKenna at Protect Young Eyes – a site devoted to “defending kids from online danger. “There never have been. The Discover section has been a content mess from the beginning, which we’ve told parents about often. Have we forgotten how Snapchat started? As a social platform created by two college students who wanted to sext.”

Model Chrissy Teigen announced her departure as a user from Snapchat, Saturday, following Rihanna’s own attack on the platform this month.

Pop megastar Rihanna slammed a controversial ad from social media platform Snapchat, which she says brought ‘shame’ to victims of domestic violence.