Snapchat now covers War! Posted on March 10, 2017 by The Notorious FDE Mashable writes <br /> 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.</p> <div class="fb-quote fb_iframe_widget"></div> <p>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.</p> <p>The nearly five-minute long feed, called “Attack on ISIS” and accessible globally, showed U.S. army members boarding trucks, smoke rising above ISIS camps, humanitarian relief workers dispensing food and citizens of Iraq wishing good luck to the soldiers (some of which were translated).</p> <p>It’s the latest piece of coverage in what has become a much larger effort by <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/09/24/snap-inc-spectacles/">Snap Inc.</a>, the company formerly known as Snapchat, to provide its <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/snapchat-us-user-growth-report/">growing</a> and <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/snapchat-after-parents/">aging</a> audience with informative and interesting news.</p> <p>This week, ABC News foreign correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/MarquardtA" target="_blank">Alexander Marquardt</a> shared updates throughout the area from Monday to Wednesday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also submitted videos and information to Snapchat, for the first time.</p> <p><a href="http://mashable.com/2016/10/21/snapchat-breaking-news/#AxDpOtYXgsq7" target="_blank">more</a></p> <p>
