Snapchat, where Neville’s son 14-year-old son Alex found the pill that killed him, said it’s already doing many of the things the report recommends. And Melissa420pillz was just as eager to talk. Those questions weren’t answered by deadline. A spokesperson said it’s giving parents more access to their kids’ activity online, and that it hopes a recent pilot with Snapchat - to identify illicit drug-related content and activity - eventually involves other companies “to help protect people and combat this industry-wide issue.”īut what of Melissa420pillz and the videos? Can’t artificial intelligence - or, maybe, a human being - tell when an “s” turns to a “z” on an apparent drug dealer’s account? When do policies turn into action? But when we asked Meta - Facebook and Instagram’s parent company - to take a look at the report for its thoughts, we got an email listing its policies forbidding drug dealing on the platforms. “The American people have to stand up and say these social media companies are complicit in these deaths.” “We are in a war we’re not winning,” said Sheriff Kieran Donahue of Canyon County, Idaho, where he serves on the Oregon-Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Executive Board. From “Best Practices to Rid Social Media or Drug Trafficking” report 27, laying out concrete steps the social media giants can take to reduce the carnage. “ Best Practices to Rid Social Media of Drug Trafficking” was released on Tuesday, Sept. These parents, along with academics and law enforcement types, are refusing to let the social media companies coast with promises to do better. Their children died after ingesting imposter drugs containing fentanyl, bought oh so easily online. Clearly, platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are not doing enough to reduce illegal dealing on their sites, says the new Commission to Develop Best Practices for Social Media to Eliminate Drug Trafficking, spearheaded by impassioned parents like Amy Neville of Aliso Viejo and Steve Filson of Redlands.
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