Snapchat’s new features to protect teens from potential online risks

Instant messaging platform Snapchat on Thursday announced new features to protect its teenage users between the age of 13 and 17 years from potential online risks.

The new features, which will begin to roll out in the coming weeks, are designed to protect teenagers from being contacted by people they may not know in real life; provide a more age-appropriate viewing experience on the content platform; and enable more effective removal of accounts that may be trying to market and promote age-inappropriate content through a new strike system and new detection technologies.