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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife, model Miranda Kerr, gifted $550 million to the non-profit, Undue Medical Debt, to pay off medical bills for over 250,000 Californians. The couple shared the news on social media. “One of the reasons we wanted to share this directly is because if you happen to receive a letter in the mail letting you know your medical debt has been forgiven, we want you to know it's real,” Kerr said. “Medical debt can be a burden that lasts long after a health crisis has passed,” Spiegel said. Marisa Clemente, who serves as vice-president of philanthropy for the non-profit, called the donation “transformative.” “For us, we think that, you know, nobody should have to choose between their health and paying their bills, and no one should go broke just because they got sick, right?” she said. “It's the one debt that people don't ask for, and it's something that people cannot control.” Clemente added that those who had their debt paid off will get their letters in mid-July. More than 17,000 people in L.A. County are expected to get those letters. Follow KNX News 1070 AM Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok

Attorney General Griffin Sues Snap, Inc. for Putting Minors at Risk and Deceiving Parents about Protections for Kids Griffin: ‘Snap built its fortune on messages that disappear without a trace. But the permanent damage to Arkansas children—and Snap’s responsibility for that damage—will not fade away’ LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin has filed a lawsuit against Snap, Inc. (Snap), the parent company of the popular social media platform Snapchat. The lawsuit seeks to hold Snap accountable for engaging in deceptive and unconscionable trade practices, creating a public nuisance that is negatively impacting the health and safety of Arkansans, and unjustly enriching itself at the expense of the health and wellbeing of Arkansas kids. Griffin issued the following statement: “Snapchat is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world and is especially popular among teens. Millions of minors, including thousands of kids in Arkansas, use the platform every day. In building its platform, which includes core features such as disappearing messages, cosmetic filters, and curated content, Snap exposed minors to a variety of foreseeable harms. These harms have included sextortion rings, predatory grooming, violent content, illegal drug marketplaces, unrealistic beauty standards, and an untested My AI chatbot that delivers

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Published  June 24, 2026 9:38 PM EDT article FILE - The Snapchat app displays on a mobile phone with Snap Inc. in the background. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The parents of a girl who was raped by an adult she met on Snapchat when she was 12 years old are suing the app’s parent company and their daughter's attacker.  Dig deeper: The lawsuit was filed in a Missouri state court on Wednesday and claimed the social media company refused to disable dangerous features in its app or warn parents about potential harms it could cause.  12-year-old met 25-year-old man on Snapchat Timeline: The victim began using Snapchat in 2021 when she was 11 years old without her parents’ knowledge, according to the lawsuit. The app usually requires users to be 13 in order to sign up, but the victim couldn’t remember what birth date she used to bypass the minimum age requirements.  A year after signing up for Snapchat, the app allegedly recommended the victim, as well as other minors from nearby high schools, as friends to Gabriel Joel Valentin-Rios, an adult who was also using the app at the time.  Valentin-Rios had no real-life connections with

The parents of a girl who was raped when she was 12 years old by an adult stranger she met on Snapchat have sued its parent company, Snap, and the attacker in Missouri state court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the social media company has refused to disable dangerous features in its app or warn parents about potential harms it may cause. According to the lawsuit, the girl began using Snapchat in 2021 when she was 11 without her parents' knowledge. While the app requires users to be 13 to sign up, the lawsuit says the girl does not remember what birth date she entered and that children knew they could easily bypass the minimum-age requirement. About a year after she began using Snapchat, the lawsuit says the app recommended her and teen girls from nearby high schools as friends to defendant Gabriel Joel Valentin-Rios, an adult who had no real-life connections to them. It did not warn the children that connecting to strangers might be dangerous. After the girl and Valentin-Rios connected, Valentin-Rios began sending her unsolicited nude photographs, the lawsuit says. The girl "did not want these photographs and, at first, did not reciprocate but Snapchat’s product design

Snap Champions runs from now until graduation in August. Gen Z hasn't abandoned social media. They've simply changed how they use it.   While public feeds remain part of daily life, much of today's online interaction takes place in group chats, direct messages and smaller digital communities. For marketers, that shift is changing the way attention is earned and how influence spreads.   That was one of the themes explored at the kick-off Snap Champions session in Sydney last month, where marketers and advertisers heard from Snapchat alongside guest speaker and creative consultant Liana Rossi, about how younger audiences communicate in increasingly private digital spaces.   The discussion centred on Snapchat's Conversation Advantage research, conducted with Omnicom Media Intelligence, which explores how people communicate in private digital environments and what that means for brands.   The findings point to a broader shift in online behaviour. As public platforms become more crowded with content, advertising and AI-generated material, people are increasingly turning to private channels to share, connect and express themselves. More than 85% of Australians now regularly use visual language such as emojis, GIFs and memes, with self-expression (53%) overtaking clarity (45%) as the primary reason people communicate. The findings suggest tone and cultural fluency matter as much as the message itself.   For brands

Social Media Today, an Industry Dive publication This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter . Snapchat shared a new report into how its users feel when using the app. The report also examined how user response data extends to brand promotions and can lead to more active engagement. This research was conducted by Eye Square as part of its 2026 Breadth of Engagement study, which was commissioned by Snap. The report incorporates responses from users across 13 global markets and offers a general look at response and engagement across different social apps. And given that Snap commissioned the report, and is publishing the results, it's unsurprising that Snapchat was listed as a leader in several key elements. First, the data showed that approximately three out of four Snapchat users said they considered the time they spent on the app to be "meaningful," which is the highest score across the major platforms. Of course, meaningful is a relative term, and a lot depends on the framing of the question, which Snapchat hasn't published. But conceptually, the data indicates that Snapchat users find the app

Snapchat is rolling out a suite of AI-powered tools across its ad stack. According to the company's blog, the update expands Snapchat's use of AI throughout its advertising business. It spans campaign setup, creative production, shopping, and creator partnerships. The most structural addition is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that opens Snap's ad platform to third-party AI agents. Opening Snap's Platform to Outside Agents Snapchat is also opening its ad platform to third-party AI agents through a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The MCP server lets advertisers and partners connect external planning, creation, and optimization tools directly to Snapchat, so campaigns can be built and scaled from the software teams already use rather than inside Ads Manager alone. The platform is adopting the same agent interface as rival platforms. Last week, Pinterest paired its own MCP server with an AI Business Assistant for advertisers, while in May, TikTok rolled out a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that opens TikTok Ads Manager to third-party AI agents for autonomous campaign management.  This is a sign that agent interoperability is becoming a baseline expectation rather than a point of differentiation. A New Creator Marketplace Snapchat has also introduced Snap Creator Network, a new

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