Snapchat will no longer make daily "Live Stories" for cities, the company confirmed to Bloomberg on Wednesday. As a result, Bloomberg reports that about 15 Snapchat employees who curate local Live Stories will lose their jobs.
The Live Stories, which featured videos submitted by Snapchat users in a particular city throughout the day, were shown in Snapchat's app next to its coverage of big events like the VMAs, political debates, and sports games.
The company has relied on a team of human curators to stitch together videos from Snapchat users into daily stories and add captions with information sourced from local news outlets.
“A small number of Local Story curator positions were eliminated in our Los Angeles and New York offices, as the result of changes to our Local Story Coverage,” Snapchat told Bloomberg in a statement. “We’re thankful for the contributions from these team members.”
Facebook recently fired the human editors who curated its Trending news section and replaced them with an algorithm-driven system. It's unclear if Snapchat will continue using humans to curate its Live Stories for big events and national news.
We've reached out to Snapchat for more information and will update this story when we hear back.
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