Distinguished members of the Mexican drug gangs are used to employ new organs, send warnings to competing gangs, post Gory Images and videos, and glorify NARCO lifestyle. Some of these accounts have been banned by the Twitter safety team between 2012 and 2015, but this has been repeated since then Elon Musk He bought the company last year.
These are the conclusions a New report It was released on Thursday by the coalition to confront online crime, a coalition of organizations that search for online crimes including drug trafficking, sexual assault on children, and romantic fraud. Now, ACCO calls to block and remove NARCO content and suspend the accounts you publish again.
The group’s report comes days after the Mexico Gulf Cartel killing Two of four American citizens who kidnapped them after the Americans crossed the borders. On Thursday, the cartel It is said She apologized for her actions.
“Social media is a tool that provides benefits for drug gangs and enhances them by enhancing organizational and operational capabilities,” said Dr. Nilda Garcia, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas A and M. International, told Buzzfeed News. “Communication outlets provide these main opportunities for drug cartridges not only to participate in public relations strategies, legitimacy, incitement to fear, recruitment, but also facilitate the diversification of criminal activities involved in blackmail, drug sales, and online human smuggling.”
Some pictures of the cartridges seem to violate the violent content policies. One of the video, published by a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, headed by Nemesio OseGuera, one of the most lords of the world, includes heads of competitors that are thrown into fire. Another tweet published by a member of La Chapisa, a faction of Cartel Sinaloa, which includes a victim of joy.
Under the leadership of Musk, the report said that Twitter efforts to remove this content and ban these accounts have decreased. Some Musk behavior – such as launching more than 70 % of Twitter employees, including the content supervisors responsible for maintaining the podium – made the problem worse, according to the report.
“Twitter should not provide a platform for the Mexican Cartel members to spread their hatred and incite violence,” Grechen Peters, CEO of ACCO, told Buzzfeed News in an interview. “We ask them to study the problem and check this issue closely.”
Twitter, who no longer has a press department, no longer responds to a comment from Buzzfeed News.
Extremists and other bad actors have flourished under the leadership of Musk, where thousands of previously banned accounts were returned, including those with extremist right -wing characters such as mypillow CEO Mike Lindel and Salaf Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon. Earlier this year, Twitter raised anger after that Permitted Taliban members to purchase blue checking signs for their accounts. (twitter Removed Signs of examination from these accounts shortly after that.)
Unlike the Taliban, Cartels has not bought the drug checks so far, according to the results of the report. Garcia said she suspects that this is because the gang members do not want to attract more attention and are likely to be documented again. “The use of social media can be a double -border sword for them,” she said. “They learned how they are not weak, and do not attract more attention from the authorities.”
Since the cartoon accounts are not officially verified, determining their authenticity is a challenge. Garcia said it is to determine whether the calculations are legitimate, as she is looking for signs of association with other cartel accounts. She also studied the geographical location of the concerned accounts.
Authors a book The name Drug war in Mexico and criminal networks: the dark side of social mediaGarcia is an expert in Cartel Sinalua, who said she had a strong presence on Twitter. It was estimated that on the platform, the Cartel reached more than 140 million people from nearly ten countries, including the United States, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. “They have a large -scale fans base.”