Overview
- A knife attack at Escuela Secundaria No.13 in Torreón left the school’s deputy director dead and four people wounded, and two 18‑year‑old former students were detained after the October 1 assault.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum ordered a working group led by the Consejería Jurídica to draft a decree, which officials say will be presented next week and would create legal obligations for platforms to detect, report and remove inciting content.
- Security agencies and the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia will expand monitoring of social media, messaging services and forums, and forensic teams are still examining the suspects’ phones to trace online influences or group ties.
- The government will pair digital rules with school prevention: strengthening the SEP’s 'ABC de las Emociones', adding confidential alert boxes, boosting counseling and discussing age‑verification or usage limits for minors.
- Experts warn the plan faces technical and legal limits, including private‑message detection, false positives and censorship risks, and they say regulation must be combined with family supervision and mental‑health support to reduce violence.