North Carolina AG Says Chinese App WeChat Has Become ‘Digital Hub for Fentanyl Trafficking’

North Carolina AG Says Chinese App WeChat Has Become ‘Digital Hub for Fentanyl Trafficking’

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson released an Instagram video on May 27, criticizing the Chinese social media and messaging app WeChat for fueling the fentanyl crisis in the United States. The video was a follow-up to a letter that Jackson and five other state attorneys general sent to WeChat US, Inc. earlier this month, demanding accountability from the company over concerns that fentanyl traffickers had been using the platform for m…

In mid-May, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced on his official website that he was leading a bipartisan coalition of six state attorneys general to investigate the connection between the Chinese communications and payment platform WeChat and money laundering and fentanyl sales in the United States.