Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and James Lankford , who leads the Senate border management subcommittee, are sponsoring the Combating Cartels on Social Media Act, which would require companies such as Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube to report social media posts by transnational criminal organizations to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.The legislation would also require DHS to analyze cartels’ usage of social media and create a portal for tech companies to report posts that attempt to recruit U.S.
The problem appears to be affecting regions along the southern border. Late last year, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Christopher Olivarez told Fox News there had been an uptick in the cartels’ recruitment videos on social media.
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