Sweden, Denmark summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young people to commit violent crimes in the Nordics

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Sweden, Denmark summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young people to commit violent crimes in the Nordics

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Danish Minister of Justice Peter Hummelgaard said […] social media - naming Telegram and TikTok - were widely used to facilitate crime and that if it was up to him alone, some communication platforms would be geoblocked and shut down.

A TikTok spokesperson for the Nordics said the company had no comment on the ministers’ statement but added it was looking forward to working with the governments on the issue.

Telegram said that it abided by the EU’s Digital Service Act and that recruitment for illegal acts was forbidden on the platform.

Meta and X did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

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