A Cybernews experiment exposed cracks in Snapchat’s AI safeguards, revealing how easily the friendly chatbot could be manipulated into sharing restricted information. Cybernews researchers easily bypassed Snapchat's AI safeguards using storytelling prompts to extract weapon-making instructions.

You can add a filter or lens to your Snaps, but the process is quite different, depending on the effect you want to use.

Newly unsealed documents show that Snapchat ignored employee concerns over the app facilitating harms against minors — including sextortion, sexual exploitation and the sale of drugs and weapons. Snapchat is a super popular social media app for teenagers.