Snapchat has been forced to deny rumours that the service will be closing down on November 14. A false story started spreading that the app would cease to exist as a result of copyright and legal issues with other companies. The rumours won’t have been helped, however, by a huge Snapchat outage last night. They tweeted in the early hours of this morning: ‘We’re not shutting down. #fakenews’ The story said: ‘The CEO Evan Spiegel of the very popular app Snapchat has released that Snapchat will be removed from all app stores by November 14,2017. ‘According to Fox News Media Evan has decided to make this decision due to copyright and legal issues with Facebook, Instagram, and Musical.ly. ‘By the date November 14,2017 all Snapchat apps with be removed from all devices and all app stores.