Snapchat Denies Blackburn’s Charge It Enables Child Predators

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5, 2019. Zach Gibson/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—A company official responded July 19 to Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-Tenn.) recent claim that Snapchat is “a child predator’s dream” with an eight-page, single-spaced letter describing multiple ways the smartphone app “is different than other social platforms.”

The lengthy letter from Jennifer Stout, Snap Inc.’s vice president for global public policy, was in response to Blackburn’s July 11 speech on the Senate floor, in which Blackburn declared: