In an email, a TikTok spokesperson said the company has developed community guidelines that include not allowing hateful or violent organizations on its platform. The company said if it notices that these organizations are using its platform, or if suspicious accounts are flagged by users who contact its help center, it will review accounts and delete them. TikTok also said it has been working closely with police in Colombia and with the army to identify and shut down accounts that violate community guidelines.
Haitian immigrant Sherlie Jean, a fast food worker, shows photos from her U.S. wedding to Kevenson Jean, a truck driver, April 16, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Now they are caught up in the confusion and fear that are rippling through the immigrant communities that dot this region. Newcomers have come here for generations to work in immense meatpacking plants that emerged as the state became the nation’s
. But after Presidentmoved to end legal pathways thatlike the Jeans have used, their future — as well as the future of the communities and industries they are a part of — is uncertain.
Haitian immigrant Kevenson Jean mows his yard, April 14, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Haitian immigrant Kevenson Jean mows his yard, April 14, 2025, in Panhandle, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
“We are not criminals. We’re not taking American jobs,” said Jean, whose work moving meat and other products doesn’t attract as many U.S.-born drivers as it once did.
He’s been making more money than he ever imagined. He’s discovered the joys of Bud Light, fishing and the Dallas Cowboys. When she’s not at one of her two food service jobs, his wife, Sherlie, works on her English by reading paperback romances, the covers awash in swooning women.Pavlo Romanovskyi, chief of a Ukrainian drone laboratory who lost a leg in battle, stands in an FPV drone storage area in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
“From the first moment (when the injury happened), comrades told me: ‘“We are waiting for you to come back.’”Pozniak, 50, serves as a commander of a sniper unit within the 27th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard.
His left leg was amputated after he stepped on a mine in November 2022 during a counteroffensive in the Donetsk region. He returned to the military in December of 2023.Serhii Pozniak, a commander with a Ukrainian sniper unit who lost a leg after stepping on a mine, carries his rifle during training near Kyiv, Ukraine on Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)