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yeah, have the effect they want. after we contacted soundcloud, they removed all the posts. they say they were being targeted by bad actors for the purpose of selling or trading illegal drugs. they say they use staff and software to moderate posts and promise to take every possible action to tackle the worldwide epidemic of drug trafficking. after contacting x, hundreds of posts were removed, but, a month later, many remained on the platform. we asked if a failure to adequately moderate had allowed posts to remain online while the global trade of these dangerous drugs flourishes. they did not respond. dylan rocha used soundcloud to share his music. for his mum, there's only one course of action for the social media firms. take them down, obviously. have more stringent things in place to stop advertisements going on.
the synthetic drugs — which are more dangerous than heroin — have been linked to a hundred deaths in the uk sincejune last year. 0ur correspondent colin campbell has more. the 21—year—old southampton musician dylan rocha died after unknowingly taking synthetic opioids called nitazenes that were hidden in heroin. just really wanted to cuddle him. i put my head on his chest, really scared. i didn't want to put my head on his chest because because his heart wasn't beating. we've discovered the super—strength manmade drugs linked to more than 100 uk deaths are being openly advertised by chinese suppliers on major social media sites. 0n x, formerly twitter, we found more than 700 adverts for nitazenes. 0n the music sharing platform soundcloud, we found almost 3,000. finding adverts on this scale — hundreds, thousands of adverts — it is horrifying with potentially a very significant
after we contacted soundcloud, they removed all the posts. they say they were being targeted by bad actors for the purpose of selling or trading illegal drugs. they say they use staff and software to moderate posts and promise to take every possible action to tackle the worldwide epidemic of drug trafficking. after contacting x, hundreds of posts were removed, but, a month later, many remained on the platform. we asked if a failure to adequately moderate had allowed posts to remain online while the global trade of these dangerous drugs flourishes. they did not respond. dylan rocha used soundcloud to share his music. for his mum, there's only one course of action for the social media firms. take them down, obviously. have more stringent things in place to stop advertisements going on. the very thing that dylan used for people to know about his music
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after we contacted soundcloud, they removed all the posts. they say they were being targeted by bad actors for the purpose of selling or trading illegal drugs. they say they use staff and software to moderate posts and promise to take every possible action to tackle the worldwide epidemic of drug trafficking. after contacting x, hundreds of posts were removed, but, a month later, many remained on the platform. we asked if a failure to adequately moderate had allowed posts to remain online while the global trade of these dangerous drugs flourishes. they did not respond. dylan rocha used soundcloud to share his music. for his mum, there's only one course of action for the social media firms. take them down, obviously. have more stringent things in place
drugs have been getting into the uk. nitazenes — which are more deadly then heroin — have recently been linked to more than two uk deaths a week. made in labs in china, nitazenes are being advertised on social media platforms and smuggled into the country — before being mixed into other illegal drugs by criminal gangs. colin campbell has the story. the 21—year—old southampton musician dylan rocha died after unknowingly taking synthetic opioids called nitazenes that were hidden in heroin. just really wanted to cuddle him. i put my head on his chest, really scared. i didn't want to put my head on his chest because because his heart wasn't beating. we've discovered the super—strength manmade drugs linked to more than 100 uk deaths are being openly advertised by chinese suppliers on major social media sites. on x, formerly twitter, we found more than 700 adverts for nitazenes. on the music sharing platform soundcloud, we found almost 3,000.
of these dangerous drugs flourishes. they did not respond. dylan rocha used soundcloud to share his music. for his mum, there's only one course of action for the social media firms. take them down, obviously. have more stringent things in place to stop advertisements going on. the very thing that dylan used for people to know about his music and love his music also advertising the drug that killed him. the bbc didn't buy any nitazenes and contacted all suppliers to ask why they were willing to provide illegal and dangerous products. only six responded, saying they'd never sent the drug to the uk and didn't know it was illegal here. the home office say amounts reaching the uk remain low and a recent tightening of the law means suppliers can now face life in prison. colin campbell, bbc news.