The `Speed Filter` has been removed from the Snapchat app
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What you need to know Snapchat is removing the `Speed Filter` from its app. The company says that it is doing so because it is not used much anymore. Snapchat is removing one of its most controversial filters from its app. Snap has confirmed that it is removing the controversial `Speed Filter` from the Snapchat app. The feature, which has been accused of playing a part in car accidents, will be removed from the app over the next few weeks. Snap told NPR that it is removing the feature because it is no longer used by most of its users. What exactly led Snap to scrap the feature now is unclear. Over several weeks, NPR asked Snap a series of questions about why it had stood by the speed filter for so long. A company spokeswoman told NPR, `Nothing is more important than the safety of our Snapchat community.` A month later, the same spokeswoman confirmed the speed filter would soon be gone. The feature `is barely used by Snapchatters,` she said on Thursday. `And in lig...