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Trending: Snapchat Surgery

Snapchat Surgery

09/07/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, Snapchat Surgery

The new social media subculture where millions watch gory videos of live plastic surgery.

Millions regularly tune in to gory videos of live plastic surgery operations on snapchat. It’s raised questions about how young women are being advertised to on the app.

We look at the new Snapchat subculture where millions of people tune in to gory live videos of plastic surgery operations. It’s raised some worrying questions about how young women are being advertised to on the app. 

Plus why has a British author’s account of her time in Zambia outraged Africans online? 

Produced by Kate Lamble and Anisa Subedar

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