{"id":1005865,"date":"2026-04-30T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005865"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:57:58","slug":"sweden-to-fine-social-media-sites-over-murder-adverts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/sweden-to-fine-social-media-sites-over-murder-adverts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden to fine social media sites over &#8216;murder adverts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s government said Wednesday it planned to introduce legislation requiring social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat to take down criminal gangs&#8217; &#8216;murder adverts&#8217; within an hour or face hefty fines. <\/p>\n<p>Criminal gangs active in Sweden increasingly use social media to recruit people to commit murders and other violent acts amid a surge in &#8220;crime as a service&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The recruits are often children under the age of 15, Sweden&#8217;s age of criminal responsibility &#8211; meaning the kids cannot be prosecuted and fall under the responsibility of social services, making them valuable assets to the gangs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s government said Wednesday it planned to introduce legislation requiring social media platforms like TikTok and Snapchat to take down criminal gangs&#8217; &#8216;murder adverts&#8217; within an hour or face hefty fines. Criminal gangs active in Sweden increasingly use social media to recruit people to commit murders and other violent acts amid a surge in &#8220;crime as a service&#8221;. The recruits are often children under the age of 15, Sweden&#8217;s age of criminal responsibility &#8211; meaning the kids cannot be prosecuted and fall under the responsibility of social services, making them valuable assets to the gangs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005893,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005865\/revisions\/1005893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}