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Snapchat suspends anonymous apps Yolo and LMK after lawsuit over teen’s suicide Updated 10:44 AM; Today 10:44 AM The Snapchat app on a mobile device screen. Yolo and LMK, two Snapchat apps, are no longer available to users of the social media platform after parent company Snap suspended.Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Image/TNS Facebook Share Yolo and LMK, two Snapchat apps that allow users to send anonymous messages, are no longer available to users of the social media platform after parent company Snap suspended them Tuesday. The suspension comes in response to a lawsuit filed Monday on behalf ...

May 12th, 2021 NurPhoto via Getty Images Snapchat has suspended two third-party apps that allow users to send anonymous messages on the platform. The move follows a lawsuit filed this week by the mother of an Oregon teen who died by suicide last year, allegedly after months of receiving bullying messages through Yolo and LMK. The Q&A apps use Snap Kit, a suite of tools that lets developers connect to Snapchat. “In light of the serious allegations raised by the lawsuit, and out of an abundance of caution for the safety of the Snapchat community, we are suspending both Yolo and LMK’s Snap K...

Snap blocks messaging apps YOLO and LMK after Oregon mom sued them over the suicide of her 16-year-old son who suffered months of abuse from anonymous bullies Snap announced Tuesday it is temporarily removing the third-party apps 'out of an abundance of caution' while it investigates the concerns of safety Kristin Bride filed a federal lawsuit against Snap, Yolo and LMK Monday The suit claims the apps are partly responsible for driving her son to suicide  It alleges the companies violated consumer protection law by failing to meet their own policies and that the apps should be deemed 'danger...

Lawsuit against Snapchat maker over Portland teen’s suicide could test platform protections Posted May 11, 2021 Facebook Share By Sam Dean | Los Angeles Times and Tribune News Service Portland is home to Lines for Life, a nonprofit devoted to suicide prevention throughout the Pacific Northwest. It operates a suicide prevention line that is answered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It can be reached at 800-273-8255 or by texting “273TALK” to 839863. One of the last things that Carson Bride did before taking his own life was look to his phone for help. The 16-yea...

Print One of the last things that Carson Bride did before taking his own life was look to his phone for help. The 16-year-old had been receiving anonymous messages for months, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday in California, through a popular Snapchat app called Yolo. The messages included sexual comments and taunts over specific incidents, such as the time he’d fainted in biology class at his Portland, Ore., school. The messages had to be coming from people he knew, but the app’s design made it impossible for him to know who was behind it. If he replied to the taunts, Yolo woul...