Snapchat Discover to clamp down on overtly sexual articles and clickbait ahead of IPO
Snapchat Discover has unveiled a fresh set of guidelines for publishers as it seeks to clamp down on “questionable pictures” which lack news or editorial value.
The new guidelines mean that Snapchat publisher partners, which include the likes of BuzzFeed, Cosmopolitan, Vice and the Sun, will be unable to show “sensitive content, including profanity, overly-sexualized content, and violent content” unless it is deemed of particular relevance to the corresponding article.
Explicit images displayed around features which have been approved as newsworthy, will have to show a warning before being displayed on screen.
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Source: The Drum




