People Smugglers in Syria Take to TikTok Fearing conscription by the Assad regime? Want to start a new life in Europe? Surf online a bit, and you’ll find that a quick chat with the right people might just solve your problem. Human smugglers in Syria have taken increasingly to the social media app TikTok in recent months to advertise their services, which include “traveling without borders” in luxury vehicles that breeze through the military checkpoints dotting the mountain highway from Damascus to Beirut.