Why a Pizza Emoji Fuels Misinformation About Cartel Wars
The obsession with reducing cartel factions to individual emojis has led to a messy and inaccurate online discourse about who might be winning or losing.
El Chapo’s wife has a pizza slice tattooed on her hand. His sons’ sicarios leave pizza slices on the bodies. Pizza emojis are included in thousands of social media posts about cartel violence.
Why? And how has this severely warped public understanding of how Mexico’s cartel wars are going?
