Dear Mr. Spiegel,

Snapchat’s design choices, including algorithmic friend recommendations, disappearing messages, and streak-based engagement contribute to conditions in which risk is not incidental but embedded in the core user experience. The result is a digital space where both everyday interactions and more serious exploitation risks—such as coercion, sextortion, or “off-platforming”—are recurring experiences for many minors.

Snapchat’s unique features also make it extremely hard for parents to supervise their child’s online activity. Because messages disappear, adults have almost no way to see what’s happening. In addition, features like notifications and Snapstreaks are designed to keep kids coming back to use the app more often and for longer periods of time, far beyond what most parents can realistically monitor. Even when young users attempt to navigate harm on their own, platform reporting mechanisms frequently fall short, leaving minors without guidance or support in high-risk moments.

As parents, young people, and others who care about the wellbeing and safety of kids and teens, we ask you to make the following changes immediately:

Implement age-appropriate design for minors, including:
- Removing all addictive features
- Setting default privacy for minor accounts to the highest level
- Removing features that facilitate harmful connections with adults
- Disabling My AI companion bot
- Implementing effective, privacy-protective age assurance to support the application of those protections.
- Stop recommending adult strangers as friends for minors
- the Snapstreaks feature for minor users
- Improve reporting processes and respond to reports in timely and appropriate ways
- Prohibit the algorithmic promotion of harmful information including child sexual abuse, self -harm content and drugs.