Platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Messenger have ended up becoming “ground zero for organized crime syndicates to market their illegal goods and move money, using the same ease of connectivity that normal users enjoy ”, assures the ACCO
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A report from the Alliance to Combat Online Crime (ACCO, for its acronym in English) affirms that the Mexican drug cartels found in digital platforms an ungoverned space to increase power of your business and messages .
As true digital marketing campaigns Organized crime has used social networks to spread messages, sell illegal products or show their weapons power against Mexicans and their rivals.
The ACCO constantly warns that groups such as Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), The Knights Templar, Los Zetas , among others, have taken over the digital world to spread their own campaigns .
In his report he accuses that platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Messenger have ended up becoming “ground zero so that organized crime syndicates commercialize their illegal goods and move money, using the same ease of connectivity that normal users enjoy. ”
As an example, he cites a video of the CJNG in Aguililla, Michoacán, where, in broad daylight criminals use weapons and monster trucks with impunity , just days after a strong massacre was recorded in the place.
The ACCO report is called “The ESG Spotlight: Organized Crime and Terror on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger ”and points out that the Organized crime also uses digital platforms to recruit members and raise funds .
In the case of Facebook, says the report, the platform encourages this type of encounters, because facilitates illicit activity by connect criminals and terrorists with their supporters .
For the Alliance the large technology companies have not managed to establish internal controls to regulate this type of activity , as it could mean a strong loss, “Like the chemical companies that were very profitable half a century ago as long as they could dump toxic waste with immunity. ”
The ACCO concludes that the current regulations of technology companies allow drug traffickers to operate with wide impunity in the world digital and that is why requires US legislators to toughen laws to restrict exposure of drug traffickers on social networks .
With information from Infobae
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