{"id":1590501,"date":"2022-08-05T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590501"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:08:56","slug":"tiktok-is-a-tool-used-by-human-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tiktok-is-a-tool-used-by-human-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Is a Tool Used by Human Traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftiktok-is-a-tool-used-by-human-traffickers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1590501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Albanian people smuggling gangs have reportedly been using the Chinese social media platform TikTok to advertise illegal boat crossings of the English Channel under the nose of the British government.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation from GB News found that human trafficking gangs are advertising to illegal migrants on the TikTok, the Chinese owned short video social media platform, offers to take them across the English Channel from France in small rubber boats.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/tiktok-used-by-human-trafficking-gangs-to-advertise-english-channel-crossings-for-5500\/347342\">investigation<\/a>, the people smugglers are charging up to\u00a0\u00a35,500 to take one person across the Channel, however, other videos offer a \u201csummer sale\u201d of \u00a33,500. While some migrants from wealthier countries, such as Iran, are more likely to be able to pay up front, many migrants will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/21\/report-illegal-boat-migrants-sign-slave-labour-pact-traffickers-reach-uk\/\">agree to work in slave like conditions<\/a> in Britain to pay off the smuggling gangs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a route every day until the end of July. We are the best group in France to pass people. Price is \u00a35,000, DM for the next route,\u201d one video said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly for \u00a34,000, what are you waiting for? Leave today, tomorrow, contact in DM.\u00a0Direct line every day France \u2013 England at four o\u2019clock,\u201d another advertised.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The TikTok posts were initially uncovered by a GB News viewer, who told the broadcaster:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m just a normal member of the public and got myself down a rabbit hole on TikTok where I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing\u2026\u00a0If it\u2019s that easy for me then why aren\u2019t the authorities doing something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">People Smugglers Using Facebook To Advertise Fake \u2018Cruises\u2019 To Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6hkqRwfqCD\">https:\/\/t.co\/6hkqRwfqCD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1295659026647318529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation follows another 696 illegals crossing the Channel on Monday, the highest daily figure of the year. The latest landings mean that over 17,000 have successfully reached British shores so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the findings, GB News host and Brexit leader Nigel Farage questioned why it was that the videos were uncovered by an \u201cordinary\u201d viewer rather than the Border Force, Home Office, or police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is it they can\u2019t find this? If any of you\u00a0make a comment on any of the social\u00a0media platforms that people don\u2019t\u00a0approve of, you\u2019ll be suspended or\u00a0perhaps even banned permanently. \u00a0We\u2019ve got a thousand police\u2026\u00a0monitoring what they\u00a0call hate speech \u2014 which it means actually\u00a0in most cases having an opinion \u2014 \u00a0So how\u00a0is it that criminal gangs can use\u00a0TikTok and not get stopped?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Farage also raised the issue of security, noting that Islamist terrorist organisations such as ISIS have used \u201cthe\u00a0Mediterranean to get their\u00a0operatives into Europe and look what\u00a0happened in Paris with those attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure\u00a0there are plenty of lovely people,\u00a0desperate to get out of Iran or whatever\u00a0it is, but that\u2019s not the point. We need\u00a0to be in control of this and frankly,\u00a0from what I can see, the next prime\u00a0minister isn\u2019t going to do it,\u201d he said of the two candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson, former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the\u00a0Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration found that the \u201cinexcusably awful\u201d handling of illegal migrants represents a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/07\/22\/channel-migrant-crisis-declared-a-national-security-risk-by-watchdog\/\">security threat to the nation<\/a>. The report found that border officials frequently allowed migrants into the country without being documented, fingerprinted, or even collecting an accurate name, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/07\/23\/uk-govt-loses-hundreds-migrants-staying-supposedly-secure-hotels\/\">allowing hundreds to abscond<\/a> from their tax-payer-funded accommodation and disappear into the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK Home Secretary Patel to Give French Millions to Stop Boat Migrants Yet Again as Record 600 Land in Day<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tMIFYVBpcM\">https:\/\/t.co\/tMIFYVBpcM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1554407082870317058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albanian people smuggling gangs have reportedly been using the Chinese social media platform TikTok to advertise illegal boat crossings of the English Channel under the nose of the British government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}