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Story summary
- Young people in Mexico use TikTok to portray themselves as agents of the DFS, a violent secret police.
- The trend draws criticism for glorifying the impunity linked to the DFS, which tortured and disappeared.
- Historian Sergio Aguayo notes the DFS's brutal tactics aimed at quelling insurgency.
- Feminist scholar Irene Soria links the trend to the rise of the far right, and some TikTok users push back.
