Parents demanding social media companies help prevent online drug sales

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Parents who lost their children to fentanyl poisoning are demanding social media companies do more to prevent teens from contacting online drug dealers.

It's been more than two years since Amy Neville lost her son Alex after the 14-year-old took a fentanyl-laced pill he found through Snapchat.

The former Aliso Viejo yoga instructor is now the vice president of Void a nonprofit advocating against illicit drugs, particularly fentanyl.the nonprofit claimed social media companies aren't doing enough to prevent kids from reaching dealers. In a statement, Snapchat said it has worked with counternarcotics, law enforcement and other experts to raise awareness of fentanyl. Additionally, they have immediately banned drug dealer accounts and blocked search results for drug keywords and much more.

"We're at a point now where the obvious stuff doesn't quite work," Neville said."But these drug traffickers use symbols, they start misspelling words in ways that people will still find them."

 

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