Snapchat partners with PinkNews to serve LGBT content on platform
The UK-based website PinkNews is Snapchat’s “ first LGBT partner ,” meaning the pro-gay news site’s channel will appear in the app’s “Discover” section, accessible to children and teens alongside outlets like Cosmopolitan. PinkNews is “now read by more people than any other LGBT+ media in the US or the UK,” it says. Snapchat, which allows users sending photos and videos that disappear after being opened and post to their “story” photos and videos that are visible to friends for 24 hours, has become an increasingly popular social media platform for millennials and the younger “Generation Z.” The addition of PinkNews will not be much of a significant change, as the Discover section already features content from a number of media outlets, most of which lean considerably left and often are sexually explicit. On Thursday, a story from PinkNews available on Snapchat was about the 10-year-old drag queen “Desmond is Amazing.” The National Center for Sexual Exploitation put Snapchat on its...