Glamming up ‘dirty war’: Teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok

AI videos let young people adopt the guise of DFS agents, sparking debate over glorifying corruption and impunity Young people in Mexico are taking to TikTok to imagine themselves as agents from the country’s 1970s secret police, the DFS – a force which was infamous for torturing, murdering or disappearing thousands during the country’s “dirty war”. The trend, which has sparked condemnation by some users on the social media platform, has seen young people use AI to transform themselves into a...

By Oscar Lopez in Mexico City