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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.

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.

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.

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.

Herbert London, president of the London Center for Policy Research and former president of the Hudson Institute, warned of threats posed to the U.S. by China’s ascendance in the realm of technological innovation. 

Snapchat’s continued troubles lend more weight to the argument that Facebook now holds a monopoly in social media.

A Central Texas school district is working alongside local, state, and federal agencies in an investigation launched after underage students found themselves blackmailed on Snapchat by a stranger seeking sexually explicit photos.

Snapchat’s parent company Snap is set to layoff 100 employees from their engineering team following a tough few months for the company.

A 14-year-old Raytown, Missouri, girl was arrested after a Sunday tip alerted police to an alleged threat against local schools that included photos of a handgun.

Snapchat’s market value dropped $1.3 billion after Kylie Jenner dropped a tweet critical of the platform’s most recent update.

A 14-year-old Florida girl is accused of beating up her 13-year-old classmate Sunday while other students recorded the incident on Snapchat.

Social media company Snapchat has laid off two dozen of their employees and relocated some of their content team members from New York to Los Angeles.

CNN’s Snapchat show “The Update” will be pulled from the social network just a few months after its debut.

A 29-year-old former New Jersey prep school teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student in a public park.

Steve Bannon gave a positive view on the state of populist economic nationalism in an interview published Tuesday.

Uber, Tinder, Snapchat, Twitter, and other top apps have allegedly been secretly tracking users, according to a report.

Another quarter, another huge disappointment from the makers of Snapchat. Shares of Snap fell by 20 percent in after-hours trading.

A California teacher accused of having sex with an underage student allegedly appeared in a raunchy Snapchat video wearing nothing but a “shirt and panties.”

Two South African men living in Murray, Utah, were arrested for allegedly raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl they had met over Snapchat, police say. Video evidence shows the girl was too drunk to resist the attack.

A group of University of New Hampshire (UNH) sorority sisters is under investigation after a video of them singing a Kanye West song containing the n-word circulated on social media.

A Florida college student has been arrested for making bomb threats against Stetson University on Snapchat, according to a report.

67 percent of Americans claim to have received their news through social media at some point, according to a report.

The size of the Instagram hack reached over 6 million users, as hackers are doing a brisk business charging $10 per individual for contact information on a searchable data base.

Snapchat’s Vice President of Content Nick Bell announced Wednesday that “scripted shows” would appear on their platform “before the end of the year.”

Teenagers are ditching Facebook in favor of other social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, according to a new report.

Snap Inc., the parent company to Snapchat, has reported that its quarterly loss “nearly quadrupled,” as user growth and revenue growth have started to slow.

An Ohio man accused of raping his 20-year-old step-granddaughter was arrested after police discovered a Snapchat video posted Tuesday showing the alleged sexual assault.

A Michigan mother of two has been sentenced to up to 15 years behind bars for having sex with two teenage boys she lured using Snapchat.

Two teenagers were arrested after police say they discovered Snapchat videos of them breaking into a water park.

(Reuters) — Facebook Inc (FB.O) has signed deals with millennial-focused news and entertainment creators Vox Media, BuzzFeed, ATTN, Group Nine Media and others to make shows for its upcoming video service, which will feature long and short-form content with ad breaks, according to several sources familiar with the situation.

Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, is facing a securities class action suit which alleges it made “false” and “misleading” claims about user growth.