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Snap confirms it's laying off around 1,300 employees
The company has canceled most original Snapchat shows and shut down some other projects.
Snap is adding new users and growing its ad business during the pandemic
While the coronavirus pandemic has hit the ad industry hard, Snap seems to be navigating it just fine.
Snap's first diversity report shows an overwhelmingly white workforce
“We will first continue to improve within Snap, and then work to open-source the future of DEI.,” Snap continued.
Snap's coronavirus bump was short lived
Snapchat continues to grow even as the coronavirus pandemic batters the ad industry.
Snapchat redesign highlights the map and original content
Snapchat is once again getting a facelift.
Snapchat stops promoting Trump's account due to his tweets
Snap says it won't promote "voices who incite racial violence and injustice."
Snapchat users surge amid coronavirus pandemic
Snapchat has more users than ever.
Snapchat fact-checks political ads where Facebook won't
Snapchat may have another way to compete against rival apps like Instagram: truth in advertising. Snap chief Evan Spiegel told CNBC in an interview that his company has a team that fact-checks all political advertising -- a sharp contrast to Facebook, which has refused to verify the accuracy of political ads so far. The company wants to "create a place" for these ads, Spiegel said, and it's particularly important given Snapchat's young audience. It wants these people to "engage with the political conversation," but it doesn't want false claims to slip into those ads.
Series will give Snap's founding story the 'Social Network' treatment
Quibi, an upcoming mobile-first video streaming service, will create a series based on Snap's founding. Film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman -- HP Enterprise's former CEO and current Quibi chief -- have announced their plans for Quibi and SXSW, and they include making both scripted and unscripted originals available for streaming. The duo picked up a screenplay entitled Frat Boy Genius, which nabbed the top spot at the 2018 Black List, for the platform. As you can guess from that title, it tells a semi-fictionalized story of Snap's beginnings that shows Spiegel in a pretty unflattering light.
Not even Snapchat's CEO can make his embarrassing email history disappear
Snapchat's CEO has previously shared his emails to show his business dealings with Facebook, but we imagine he now regrets making his inbox fair game. Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag has leaked messages from Evan Spiegel's days at Stanford, in 2009, where the executive let his frat boy-side a little too far out of the closet. In addition to encouraging his fellow fraternity folks to commit sexual acts, he confesses to peeing on a female friend and even requested a "kilo of blow" for a party. For his part, Spiegel has now apologized for his "idiotic emails," saying that they no longer reflect the person he is, or his attitudes towards women. Of course, we've all made the odd off-color joke or poorly thought-out statement that we'd prefer to forget, but perhaps this is why Spiegel was so committed to building a messenger where your missives (ostensibly) self-destruct after 10 seconds.
