Snapchat admits age verification failures to MPs

Executives at Snapchat have been grilled by MPs over the company's system to verify the age of its users and ensure they're over 13.During a hearing before a parliamentary committee, the company's representatives accepted its age verification systems when users signed up for the platform weren't robust enough.Its senior director for public policy, Stephen Collins, and its director of creative strategy, Will Scougal, said that Snapchat did not want underage users on its platform.