Mexican Cartels Use TikTok to Attract New Members to Their Criminal Gangs

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TikTok is being used as a propaganda tool—and possibly a recruitment tool—by one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels, offering a new example of how criminal groups adapt faster than social media platforms can control them.A new report by the social media analytics company Graphika revealed that a network of 100 TikTok accounts used coded images, jargon, music, and emojis to promote the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel, a group that the …

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Instead of directly naming the cartel, the accounts resorted to more subtle signals that were less likely to trigger moderation