Snapchat CEO Performs Some So-So Damage Control

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel may not care for “controversial” questions, but when faced with an unavoidable problem he had no choice but to go on damage control duty. We’re not quite sure whether this quick Today clip effectively addresses the “millions of usernames and partial phone numbers published” scandal, though…

He basically just said “This happens to everybody. Sorry. We’re working with law enforcement”, and he didn’t offer anything resembling an apology.

That’s not all.

As Carson Daly noted at the end of that segment, Snapchat now plans to release an updated version of its app as announced in a blog post last night.

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