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Bellingcat Report on how influencers are using TikTok to advertise human smuggling services
He had tens of thousands of followers and posted regularly about his alleged people smuggling activities, but we found many of his claims didn't add up.
Bellingcat contacted the account holder – a man who goes by the name Maldonado- and in an unexpected turn, he claimed to help people cross the US-Mexico border undetected without charging them and without receiving permission from organised crime groups. However, rather than showing any ‘border barrier’ installed in the Rio Bravo, we geolocated it to Black Point Marina in Florida described on Google Maps as a “waterfront hangout featuring a dockside eatery, picnic pavilion, fishing jetty & jogging trail.” The same phrase repeated by Maldonado became viral two years earlier in a video posted by alleged members of “”, a term associated with armed men serving the sons of former Sinaloa cartel Leader Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as “E l Chapo ”.
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