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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A series of posts on the social media app Snapchat will soon land a Columbia, Missouri man in a federal penitentiary. Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Missouri said Chauncey Howard admitted to posing with illegal firearms and narcotics in photos and videos he shared on Snapchat. He’d also regularly post announcements on the app that he had drugs for sale. An officer with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) testified that he witnessed these posts on Howard’s Snapchat account. In July 2020, Howard shared pictures of him brandishing a silver Smith & Wesson .40-caliber handgun with a laser and flashlight attachment. In one of those posts, he was in possession of 24 oxycodone pills. Howard also posted a video of him with the same firearm and two Taurus handguns. Another video showed two five-gallon buckets filled with pre-packaged marijuana products from a dispensary, which Howard said he was selling. Law enforcement also found videos of Howard displaying different firearms and ammunition and a video of him firing the Taurus handgun at an improvised backstop. Howard was also seen with an AR-style rifle in one of the videos.…

Contributors: Jasmine Enberg, Jeremy Goldman, and Daniel Konstantinovic The combination of investor uncertainty, war, and economic challenges are wreaking havoc on social media firms. In this Analyst Take, a follow-up to our Era of Uncertainty report, we take a closer look at our ad revenue forecasts for Meta, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Snapchat, and Pinterest and what the latest negative news means for these platforms in the rest of 2022.Our recent ad revenue forecasts for the six social media firms already took economic headwinds into account. In our March revision, we incorporated many of the factors that are contributing to the current upheaval in the technology sector: inflation, adjustments to baseline interest rates, shifts in consumer confidence, and fast-changing supply chain conditions. Here are our 2022 worldwide ad revenue projections for these companies:

Kyle Lee Blevins of Tulsa has been arrested for trying to get naked photos from a 14-year-old girl on Snapchat. However, the girl in this case was actually a Detective with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO). By FOX23.com News StaffMay 25, 2022 at 9:36 pm CDTTULSA, Okla. — Kyle Lee Blevins of Tulsa has been arrested for trying to get naked photos from a 14-year-old girl on Snapchat. However, the girl in this case was actually a detective with the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO).Blevins was officially charged with using technology to engage in sexual communication with minor, lewd or indecent proposal to child and soliciting minor for indecent exposure/obscene mail.Using a series of profiles specifically to investigate sex crimes against children, the detective was able to pose online as an underage girl from Tulsa, according to an affidavit.The detective received a message on the app Whisper from Blevins under the username “theking1990″. Blevins asked how old she was. When the detective said she was 14, Blevins said, “damn 31.”Blevins then contacted the detective a few days later. He asked what she was doing. The detective said she was in the shower, to which Blevins asked if he could…

Social media stocks on Wall Street shed a staggering $US165 billion ($233 billion) in one day's trade following an ominous earnings warning from Snapchat's parent company.Shares of Snap plunged more than 40 per cent Tuesday and hit their lowest level since March 2020, just after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States.The company said in a regulatory filing that its dim outlook was due to the fact that "the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and faster than anticipated".Shares of Snap plunged more than 40 per cent Tuesday and hit their lowest level since March 2020, just after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States. (AP)News of Snap's woes dragged down the shares of many of its rivals.Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms fell nearly 8 per cent while Pinterest tumbled more than 20 per cent. YouTube and Google parent Alphabet slid 5 per cent and the Global X Social Media ETF, which owns shares in all of these companies, fell 8 per cent.The social setback put a damper on much of the market's overall mood. The tech-laden Nasdaq was down about 2.5 per cent Tuesday. The S&P 500 dipped nearly 1 per cent and the Dow was flat.There are fears that…

Tech companies are on the ledge, bleeding by the minute. Yesterday’s indices at NASDAQ is a surefire grim warning for Silicon Valley to get their game together. While most including Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft are aggressively working on Metaverse, the road ahead has bumps ahead. As Snapchat stocks tanked 43%, it wiped off over $150 billion from the cumulative social media giants shares. Next worst hit is Facebook’s parent Meta that lost over $53 billion in market valuation! This also reflects in the depleting wealth of the billionaire founders. A stark profit warning from Snapchat’s parent company spooked investors into dumping the stocks of major social media companies. Snap plummeted 39%, while Facebook's parent, Meta, slumped 10%. Google's parent fell 8%.https://t.co/FiCfCFaztF— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 24, 2022 Snap plunged 43%, while Meta dived 10% and Google’s parent Alphabet fell about 8%. Shares of Pinterest fell 27% while Twitter plunged 4%. This definitely has spooked the investors. Snapchat’s selloff has led to a decline of about $16 billion in its total market value. The news spread like wildfire, burning shares of Google, Meta and the likes. When tech companies are striving to take every single bit of advantage via in-app…

A woman stands in front of the logo of Snap Inc on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, NY, U.S. March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comMay 24 (Reuters) - Snap Inc (SNAP.N) shares plunged more than 40% and sparked a sector-wide selloff on Tuesday after a profit warning from the Snapchat parent signaled tough times ahead for the once-booming digital ad industry.The company was on track to lose $15 billion in market capitalization, while shares of major online advertisers and social-media firms were set to lose a combine $200 billion in value from the rout.Meta Platforms (FB.O), Pinterest (PINS.N), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) were all down between 7% and 24%.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSnap said on Monday it was expecting to miss quarterly revenue and profit targets set just a month earlier and would have to slow hiring and lower spending.The bleak view from one of the sector's well-known names underlines the impact of the Ukraine war, surging inflation and rising interest rates on social media companies just when they were trying to shake off the hit from changes to Apple's iOS…

Social media stocks plummeted following an ominous earnings warning from Snapchat's parent company. Shares of Snap plunged 40% Tuesday and hit ...

Snapchat under surveillance Snapchat has been investing in its law enforcement team as it receives a substantial number of requests for user data (Photo illustration by STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Alleged fentanyl dealers in Arizona spied on over Snapchat — something that would be impossible on WhatsApp or Signal. In 2021, the FBI started running wiretaps in Tucson, Arizona, on what agents believed to be founding members of the Southside Murda Gang Killas — “a violent Bloods hybrid criminal street crew,” according to the bureau, known for smuggling people, guns and drugs over the Mexican border into Arizona. Investigators targeted Snapchat conversations between Bryan Moreno-Aguilar and two associates. Agents said they intercepted audio messages in December in which Moreno-Aguilar’s account appeared to ask for help with stashing supplies — allegedly narcotics. In one audio message, the owner of an account the FBI believed to be controlled by Moreno-Aguilar said, “I just need someone … a stash house where I can put my shit away.” Later, the FBI intercepted video sent via Snapchat in which a suspect was counting out “what agents believe to be approximately 1,000 counterfeit M30 pills on a table,” according to a search…

Image source, Family handoutImage caption, Ava White died after being stabbed in Liverpool city centre in NovemberA boy accused of murdering schoolgirl Ava White showed a "callous disregard" after her stabbing, a court has heard. Ava White, 12, was stabbed to death in Liverpool on 25 November 2021. A 14-year-old, who denies murder and manslaughter, claims he accidentally stabbed Ava in self-defence after a row over a Snapchat video.But Liverpool Crown Court was told the boy took selfies, ate crumpets and played a computer game after the stabbing. In her closing speech, Charlotte Newell, QC, prosecuting, said the defendant did not want to admit that he knew he had stabbed Ava as he ran from the scene, before abandoning his knife and coat.She said: "Otherwise it would expose his callous disregard for Ava, taking selfies, eating crumpets and playing Call Of Duty knowing he had stabbed her."The jury was shown CCTV footage of the boy and his friends after the stabbing going into a shop, where they bought butter which he said was for crumpets and he arranged his hair for a selfie.Ms Newell added: "Knowing he had stabbed her, his behaviour is of someone who is, at best, utterly…

Screenshots depicting Snapchat's upcoming parental control features have reportedly offered a glimpse at what the ephemeral messaging service appears to be calling Family Center.TechCrunch reports(Opens in a new window) that Watchful, a market intelligence company, shared a handful of screenshots of Family Center in action nearly seven months after Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed that Snapchat was developing these parental control features at WSJ Tech Live(Opens in a new window).The screenshots obtained by Watchful(Opens in a new window) and published by TechCrunch indicate that Family Center will allow parents of teenagers to "get visibility into who they are friends with," "see who they have messaged in the last seven days," and "feel comfortable reporting abuse" to Snapchat."The parental control feature works by allowing parents to invite their teen (or teens) to the new in-app Family Center in order to begin the monitoring," TechCrunch reports. "The recipient of that invitation has the option of either accepting or declining the invitation."This demonstrates the care with which Snap needs to approach the introduction of parental control features. The company probably doesn't want to alienate teenage users by giving their parents unfettered access to these tools, but it doesn't want to risk the parents'…