Five students whose ages ranged from 19 to 22 were lured to meet with a Mexican drug cartel with a fake job offer. The young men were then kidnapped and brutally murdered by the cartel on video.

New York City has been the most recent government entity to join the banning of TikTok, on all devices owned by the city. The Chinese owned company was prohibited from all government devices due to a security threat to the city’s technical networks.