A lawsuit filed by New Mexico against Snap (SNAP) in September alleges the company’s product features and enforcement gaps have made its platform a haven for child abuse and blackmail, The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz reports. The state accuses Snap of giving priority to growth over safety, with internal documents cited by the suit finding that a rough internal analysis in November 2022 found that Snap was receiving 10,000 reports of “sextortion” each month. “We designed Snapchat as a place to communicate with a close circle of friends, with built-in safety guardrails, and have made deliberate design choices to make it difficult for strangers to discover minors,” a spokeswoman said in response to the suit, adding that the company continues to work on additional safety measures and has broken with major social media peers to support federal child safety legislation. “We care deeply about our work here and it pains us when bad actors abuse our service.” New Mexico previously sued Facebook and Instagram parent Meta (META) over child safety failures.
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