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Mayor seeks ban on online criminal content after shooting at Indian star’s B.C. café

The mayor of Surrey, B.C., is urging social media platforms to ban criminal content after a video of someone shooting up a restaurant in the city, filmed from inside the attackers’ car, was circulated online.

Brenda Locke says she is appealing to companies such as Meta, X and TikTok to stop allowing content from violent criminals to be spread on their platforms, calling such actions a weaponization of social media networks.

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