The new features not only broaden Snapchat’s already extensive list of youth safety measures, but they also specifically target financial sextortion, an alarming and increasingly prevalent kind of social media scam in which unscrupulous individuals gain the trust of young people, persuade them to send explicit or sexual images, and then demand payment in exchange for keeping the images private.
Teens who get a message from a user who has been reported by other users or who resides in an area where their contacts are not located will now receive pop-up warnings from Snapchat.
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