{"id":92779,"date":"2026-08-10T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92779"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:24:10","slug":"mexicos-massacre-of-the-influencers-why-cartels-are-murdering-social-media-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/10\/mexicos-massacre-of-the-influencers-why-cartels-are-murdering-social-media-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico&#8217;s massacre of the influencers: Why cartels are murdering social media stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA29McqW.img?w=634&h=793&m=6&x=289&y=211&s=139&d=139\" alt=\"Valeria Marquez (pictured) was live streaming to her followers from inside her beauty salon when a motorbike-riding gunman opened fire last May\u00a0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mexican cartels are increasingly executing influencers and social media stars as the online celebrities are dragged into gang wars.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/mexico-s-massacre-of-the-influencers-why-cartels-are-murdering-social-media-stars\/ar-AA29M53L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a7a045945954dfda9a4d58c9b8bfab6&ei=25\">\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Mexican cartels are increasingly executing influencers and social media stars as the online celebrities are dragged into gang wars.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/shooting-Mexico.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92780,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92779\/revisions\/92780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}