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Snapchat is making it harder for strangers to contact teens — again
Snapchat is, once again, beefing up its safety features to make it harder for strangers to contact teens in the app.
The company is adding new warnings about "suspicious" contacts and preemptively blocking friend requests from accounts that may be linked to scams. These updates, according to the company, will help address sextortion scams that often target teens across social media platforms, as well as other safety and privacy concerns. The latest update also just happens to come shortly after Rolling Stone published an exhaustive investigation into how Snapchat “helped fuel a teen-overdose epidemic across the country.”
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