Mexico to Propose Bill to Curb Violent Social Media Content After School Attack
The proposed measure follows a school attack that killed a vice principal and injured four people, while officials cite similar laws in other countries.
- On Friday, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the government will seek a bill requiring social media platforms to remove content that incites violence, aiming to protect young people.
- The announcement follows Thursday's deadly attack at the Number 13 Secondary School in Torreón, Coahuila, where a vice principal was killed and four people were injured by two 18-year-old former students.
- Security Minister Omar García Harfuch reported a working group will draft a decree next week establishing platform obligations, involving the Ministry of Public Education and the Digital Transformation Agency.
- Similar measures exist internationally; the United Kingdom, Australia, and the European Union have passed laws requiring platforms to remove violent content, while Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica are considering comparable bills.
- Sheinbaum unveiled this policy during her Friday press conference marking the 58th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre, honoring 1968 victims while stating "October 2 is not forgotten.
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The initiative seeks to significantly strengthen the detection, reporting and timely elimination of all content that directly incites violence.
Armed attacks in schools are rare in Mexico, a country hit by drug trafficking violence, but in recent years they have occurred more frequently. On Thursday two 18-year-olds knifed the deputy director of an educational establishment and injured three other people in the industrial city of Torreón, in the state of Coahuila, bordering the United States. "There are some similar episodes that have occurred in the country in recent years, there are t…
The government talked about social media, but not about the failure of the promise to rescue Mexican youth.
Los Angeles Times
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Friday that her government will force digital platforms to monitor the content and lower the messages that incite violence to prevent repeated attacks such as those that occurred this week in two high schools that caused shock in the country in the face of the escalation of attacks committed by young people.
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