Snapchat shows frontlines of battle for Mosul as it deepens a role in breaking news

As Iraqi and Kurdish forces fight to take back the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, the team at Snapchat, thousands of miles away, is sorting through a trove of videos taken from the ground for its own real-time news coverage. Yes, the company that began simply as a self-destructing messaging app has grown into a breaking news channel — one that for the first time this week featured a war zone. 

For 24 hours from Oct. 19 to 20, Snapchat ran an ongoing Live Story, a curated collection of submitted videos of the frontline in Iraq and other related events like President Barack Obama and other U.S. officials addressing the nation about the attack.  Read more...

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