Overview
- Two 18-year-old former students attacked a secondary school in Torreón on Thursday, killing the subdirector and injuring four people; the suspects were detained and handed to local prosecutors.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum has convened a multi-agency working group with experts from UNAM and IPN to draft a presidential decree that would obligate platforms to detect, report and promptly remove content that directly incites violence.
- Security officials said the decree draft will be presented next week and that the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia will step up monitoring of social networks, messaging services and forums to spot extremist or violent content.
- Investigators are conducting forensic exams of the suspects’ phones to verify ties to online 'pseudofan' groups that glorify attackers, and education authorities will push measures to make it harder for minors to open accounts and to require platforms to prove they are safe for children.
- Officials stress the decree remains in draft form and that its language must clearly define the targeted content to avoid censorship while holding platforms partly responsible for material that may inspire copycat violence.