Snapchat has pulled the plug on its controversial speed filter, the company announced. The filter, which lets users measure the speed a phone is moving and then share it on the app, has been on ...

Snapchat has begun removing its "speed filter" feature after it was blamed for encouraging dangerous speeding by safety advocates and families of car crash victims. It's not clear when Snap Inc. made ...

Snapchat is getting rid of a controversial filter that let users share how fast they are moving — and, according to the company, the decision was a long time coming. If you no longer see the ability ...

For about the past eight years, Snapchat users had access to a filter that would overlay their speed of travel, measured in miles per hour. Not surprisingly, videos and photos shared to social media ...

The maker of the Snapchat app is eliminating a feature known as the "speed filter" that lets users capture how fast they are moving and share it with friends, a company spokesperson told NPR. The move ...

A federal court has ruled that Snapchat can be sued after three of its users were killed during a car crash in 2017. The victims, three young men from Wisconsin, were traveling at speeds in excess of ...

Snapchat gained popularity by allowing its users to share pictures and short video clips with each other in an ephemeral, disappearing manner. It also pioneered the concept of letting users overlay ...

The filter, which allowed users to share their current speed, has been linked to several car crashes involving teens and young people. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

ATLANTA — The CEO of Snapchat must answer questions in a Georgia lawsuit, according to documents filed in Spalding County. Christal McGee crashed along Tara Boulevard in southern Clayton County in ...