Federal agents have interviewed parents of children who died and are working to access their social media accounts to trace the suppliers of the lethal drugs.
Federal agencies are questioning Snapchat’s role in the spread and sale of fentanyl-laced pills in the U.S. as part of a broader probe into the deadly counterfeit drugs crisis.
On Wednesday, the involvement of technology companies in the ongoing fentanyl crisis was to be discussed on Capitol Hill at a House Energy and Commerce Committee roundtable. One of the listed speakers, Laura Marquez-Garrett, an attorney with the Social Media Victims Law Center, said Snapchat will be the focus.
Snap shares dropped 6.6% on Wednesday in New York, worse than the 1.9% decline in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index. Dealers prefer to use Snapchat because of its encrypted technology and disappearing messages — features that have given the platform an edge over its rivals and helped it become one of the world’s most popular social media apps for teens.
Snapchat is facing increasing scrutiny — and not just from the feds, or House Republicans. In the past year, dozens of grieving families from across the country have filed lawsuits against the platform, alleging it aided and abetted in the sale of counterfeit pills to their kids. The lawsuits claim Snapchat is slow to respond to police subpoenas and can take months to remove known drug dealers from its platform.
Two days before he died, Neville told his mother he had purchased Oxycodone from somebody on Snapchat. He told her he was scared because he already wanted more. His mother, Amy Neville, booked him into a treatment facility, but the next morning she found him lying on his bedroom floor, lifeless. His fingers and lips were blue.
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