News Archive 2022

Today, we are releasing our latest transparency report, which covers the first half of 2022. At Snap, the safety and well-being of our community is our top priority...

Sunday is World Kindness Day, a day dedicated to education and inspiring people to choose kindness – in real life and online. At Snap, kindness is one of our core values, and it is on display daily...

Today, we are pleased to help launch an unprecedented public awareness campaign with the Ad Council, also funded by YouTube, to help educate young people about the dangers of counterfeit pills...

Next week, Snap will be launching an unprecedented public awareness campaign with the Ad Council to help educate both parents and young people on the dangers of counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl...

Earlier this year, Snap announced that we would rebuild our Safety Advisory Board (SAB) with the aim of growing and expanding membership to include a diversity of geographies, safety-related disciplines...

At Snap, the health and well-being of our community is our top priority. As young people around the world struggle with their mental health, we have both a responsibility and a meaningful opportunity to support Snapchatters...

Teens and young people across much of the world are heading back to school and, with the global pandemic largely behind us, it appears they will be re-entering the classroom and interacting with friends and classmates with some consistency — both in-person and online...

With the midterm elections approaching in the United States, we wanted to highlight our long-standing approach to preventing the spread of false information on Snapchat, and the steps we continue to take to build on our strong foundation of preventing the spread of false information on our platform.

At Snap, we believe that our products should reflect real-life human behaviours, and how people act and relate to each other in their everyday lives. We’ve made it a point to build things differently from the beginning...

Last year, as part of our ongoing efforts to understand young people’s awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and the broader epidemic of counterfeit pills, we conducted a survey of young Americans and found that nearly half (46%) rated their average stress level as 7 out of 10 or above...

Over the past year and a half, Snap has been deeply focused on doing our part to help combat the broader national fentanyl crisis, which has continued to intensify during the pandemic. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that over 100,000 people died due to drug overdose...

In February, Snapchat partnered with It’s On Us, a national non-profit dedicated to combating campus sexual assault through awareness and prevention education programmes, to announce our important...

Since 2018, members of Snap’s Safety Advisory Board (SAB) have provided critical feedback on fostering the safety and well-being of our Snapchat community, and they’ve helped us navigate some complex safety issues...

We are committed to making each of our Transparency Reports more comprehensive than the last. It’s a responsibility we don’t take lightly, as we know our stakeholders care as deeply about online safety and accountability as we do...

We want Snapchatters to have fun and stay safe when using our services, and that goal drives the design of our products, our policies and our platforms for third-party developers. We also focus on building technologies...

At Snap, we help friends stay connected no matter where they are, and we want to give our community even more tools to safely explore the world around them. So today, we are introducing a new safety feature...

Today is international Safer Internet Day (SID), an annual event dedicated to people coming together around the world to make the internet safer and healthier for everyone, especially young people...

Today marks Data Privacy Day, a global effort to raise awareness about the importance of respecting and safeguarding privacy. Privacy has always been central to Snapchat’s primary use case and mission...

Hello, Snapchat community! My name is Jacqueline Beauchere and I joined Snap last autumn as the company’s first Global Head of Platform Safety...

Late last year, the CDC announced that more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US over a 12-month period -- with fentanyl being a major driver of this spike. This staggering data hits home – we recognise the horrible...