New Mexico attorney general says internal Snap documents show the company allowed spread of sextortion on Snapchat

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Kalhan Rosenblatt is a reporter covering youth and internet culture for NBC News, based in New York.

The New Mexico attorney general said Tuesday that internal documents from Snapchat released as part of an ongoing lawsuit show how the platform failed to manage and notify users about sextortion on the platform. The suit, which Attorney General Raúl Torrez originally filed in September, includes the text of some of Snap’s internal correspondence.

The account had allegedly mentioned “nudes, minors, and extortion,” and yet, no action was taken, according to the suit. The suit also cited internal data collected by Snap that said that in 2022 a third of girls and 30% of boys on its platform had been exposed to unwanted contact. It alleged that last year, over half of Gen Z users said they or a friend had been targeted by people using false identities.

 

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