Do You Know that Issue Going on Here - Snapchat Fights Drug Dealing On App amid Surge in Youth Overdose Deaths

Snapchat has introduced new measures to combat drug dealing on the platform for the changes against drug-related deaths among US high school and college-aged youth are detonate. The “Fentanyl Epidemic” in the US has led to a boom in drug-related deaths.

There is zero tolerance for drug dealing on Snapchat and continue to bring more measures to keep our society safe on Snapchat. They made significant operational improvements in last year for the future goal of removing drug dealers from our platforms. The statement from the company was “Snapchat is the communication platform that drug dealers seek to abuse to distribute illegal substance, and have different opportunity to use our voice and technology to help address this scourge, threatens the community members”.

This drug was impacted, young people. A synthetic opioid is more potent than heroin and it is mixed with counterfeit pills. Young people buy these pills on social media, mistaking them for pharmaceutical drugs.

In 2020, Fentanyl fatalities rose more than 93000 a 32 percent increase from 2019. The drug deaths up by 50 percent are mainly targeted on under 24 age group people are analyzed in the Guardian analysis of federal data. The pills are labeled as Oxycontin, Percocet, Xanax are available on platforms like Snapchat, and Instagram. The offer from Instagram is an instant drug pipeline for kids that enabled them to find drugs in simple clicks details gathered from TTP.

Last year, the company said that has increased collaborations with law enforcement inquiries by 85 percent. Snapchat blocked the list of slang and drug-related terms with working experts in the Blog Post.

The senior editor Christine Elgersma said has to stop the massive rise in online drug dealing. This is not only in Snapchat. In 2021, An Instagram executive faced questions about this issue in a congressional hearing.

Due to the effect of Fentanyl overdoses previously shared with the Guardian screenshot of Snapchat accounts selling pills. Hopes that other parents should warn their children before some bad happened.