NYPD data shows police have made 88 arrests related to subway surfing so far this year, up from 30 during the same period of 2022. “It is about peer-to-peer communication, interaction to stop this horrific action that is taking lives and injuring individuals and that impact cascades out into their peer group,” Adams said during a news conference announcing the campaign. The MTA is also launching an awareness campaign on the dangers of subway surfing, which includes public service announcements created by city school students as well as special MetroCards and posters with the slogan “Ride Inside, Stay Alive, Subway Surfing Kills.” “They (tech companies) developed algorithms to weed it out and they’re working with us to take it down.” “Young people are being subjected to massive doses of video and material that was glorifying this,” MTA Chair Janno Lieber said during a news conference. MTA officials said 2,600 videos and photos of subway surfing have been stripped from the social media platforms in recent months. The content crackdown comes after five teenagers died this year while riding outside subway trains. The MTA has for months requested that platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok remove the videos. Social media companies have agreed to automatically take down videos that promote subway surfing, officials said. New York City teenagers who post daredevil videos online showing them riding on the outside of subway trains may have a harder time going viral, Mayor Eric Adams and MTA officials said on Tuesday.
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