Snapchat’s drug moderation failure

Danish researchers posing as 13-year-olds found many Snapchat accounts openly selling drugs under obvious usernames (e.g., 'coke', 'molly'). When they reported 40 such profiles, Snapchat removed only 10 and rejected the rest, despite claiming proactive filtering. — This quantifies a child‑safety enforcement gap on a major platform, informing debates over platform liability, reporting responsiveness, and design‑level safeguards.