“Some of the trade has been carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages.” https://t.co/xhsU524hu6

— blmohr (@blmohr) October 31, 2019

Pick up a smartphone & you can scroll through 1000’s of their pictures, categorised by race, & available to buy.

Quick to cash in, tech giants have been slow to ensure their inventions don’t become weapons of abuse.#ModernSlavery #HumanTraffickinghttps://t.co/Du7zXyemRX

— Lou Cahill, RN (@Cahill_Lou) November 1, 2019

"You can wake her up at 5a.m., she won't complain." Slave trading on an app near you https://t.co/CNxPyVCn5k

— Maria Aristodemou (@maariaris) November 1, 2019

This is what happens when you’re focused on growth at all costs.

These companies don’t care who gets hurt while aiming for ever higher advertising rates and engagement. https://t.co/Esa48NL08E

— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) November 1, 2019

Facebook is helping Kuwaiti slave traders conduct their business more efficiently via Instagram. Yet another industry disrupted by Silicon Valley. https://t.co/h9ZmXCZxUg

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) November 1, 2019

The hits just keep coming for Instagram. First, illegal drugs. Then, ISIS recruiting. Then, endangered species. Now, slavery. With this as backdrop, the head of Insta is defending FB’s policy on lies in political ads. https://t.co/4ckJ3z5hAs

— Roger McNamee (@Moonalice) November 1, 2019

In one case, the BBC team was offered a 16-year-old girl. It has called her Fatou to protect her real name.
Fatou had been trafficked from Guinea in West Africa and had been employed as a domestic worker in Kuwait for six months https://t.co/mgAUBY7LbF

— ود البيه (@khalidalbaih) November 1, 2019

How Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market in the Gulf
Thread
Exclusive report by @BBCArabic https://t.co/BVl5gskzv2

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 31, 2019

MUST WATCH - Domestic workers are being sold on an app along with cars and TVs. When people’s lives are sold as a commodity. There is a word for it: slavery. https://t.co/0zxCUyLPlW

— Martin Patience (@martinpatience) November 1, 2019

Want to buy a human in Kuwait? There's an app for that. Undercover investigation of how Facebook, Google, and Apple make money off of the Gulf's online slave trade, by @Jeky_Kelly and @OwenPinnell. https://t.co/cRKd3OjvGT

— Aron Lund (@aronlund) November 1, 2019

This one's for you, @wokyleeks and #minggao26. Also, @pleasexplainMrI https://t.co/u7QiFspfdH

— Jill Elaine "PATTERN-CRACKIN' MOB BUSTER" Hughes (@JillEHughes) November 1, 2019

Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets:
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing... https://t.co/Rr4AByZ3cT

— Jerome Elam (@JeromeElam) November 1, 2019

Horrific. Slavery is the buying and selling of people. The buying and selling of maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets - BBC News #modernslavery https://t.co/XAcybS4Tkz

— Jennifer Burn (@Jennifer_Burn) November 1, 2019

@GretchenSPeters
Selling child slaves using #Instagram and apps on #Google and #Apple. Another day another #facebookfail. Also #googlefail and #applefail. @CounteringCrime
@FightExtremism @LibertyAsiaHK @FacebookBreakup
@GTP_updateshttps://t.co/MgoafkigV6

— Gretchen Peters (@GretchenSPeters) November 1, 2019

There are still thousands of domestic workers being bought and sold on Instagram, Haraj, and other apps approved and provided by Google and Apple

Watch the full exclusive report by @BBCArabic on https://t.co/wSZsH4oov0

— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) November 1, 2019

BBC News - Maids for sale: How Silicon Valley enables online slave markets https://t.co/JPfAtUoCto

— Richard Mabala (@MabalaMakengeza) November 1, 2019

How Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market in the Gulf
Thread
Exclusive report by @BBCArabic https://t.co/UsphmZevUj

— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) November 1, 2019

THIS SOUNDS BAD. https://t.co/XBBzWL6Xg0

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) November 1, 2019

Investigation by BBC News: domestic workers are being illegally bought and sold online in a booming black market. "What they are doing is promoting an online slave market," said Urmila Bhoola, the UN special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery. https://t.co/kcDmt6fArw

— The Human Trafficking Legal Center (@HTLegalCenter) November 1, 2019

@facebook-owned @instagram, and other social media platforms, are being used in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as online slave markets.

Mr. Zuckerberg should probably look into this. https://t.co/k927BU3nuq

— Steven Cotterill (@socialiststeve6) November 1, 2019

“Some of the trade [of humans] has been carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages.”https://t.co/2d1zH24EHa

— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) November 1, 2019

BBC News - Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps

"Some of the trade has been carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages."https://t.co/kp7WRH8kk1

— Alaa al-Ameri (@AlaaAmeris) November 1, 2019

WTH "pick up a smartphone and you can scroll through thousands of their pictures, categorised by race, and available to buy for a few thousand dollars."

BBC News - Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/q4vAafciEn

— Dianne Emerson (@Dianne_Emerson) November 1, 2019

I can't for the life of me understand why lame brain MP's like limmpy et al seem deaf/blind to reality of the 'happening right now' slave trade of his African brothers? Oh hang on it's not whitey doing it is it,it's them foollowers of the RoP so it's ok?https://t.co/QRoTJpa63b

— The Zombie Nun (@zombie_nun) November 1, 2019

<<The 4Sale app allowed you to filter by race, with different price brackets clearly on offer, according to category.
"African worker, clean and smiley," said one listing. Another: "Nepalese who dares to ask for a day off.>>
"https://t.co/ElPtoItEya

— Migrant Rights (@MigrantRights) November 1, 2019

Women in kuwait being sold as slaves on instagram.
Tell me again that we don't need feminism https://t.co/MrdHALoZkM

— Fee Chrystall (@Fee_oh_naah) November 1, 2019

Domestic workers in Kuwait are being bought and sold online through Instagram and promoted hashtags https://t.co/k6LNrANKVJ

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 1, 2019

"If Google, Apple, Facebook or any other companies are hosting apps like these, they have to be held accountable."

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/OGrPUbPNow

— Dr Akinola Olojo (@Akinzo8) November 1, 2019

"The sellers [in the Gulf states] almost all advocated confiscating the women's passports, confining them to the house, denying them any time off and giving them little or no access to a phone. The 4Sale app allowed you to filter by race". https://t.co/3ix5Iulk82

— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) November 1, 2019

Online slave markets (trading in African domestic workers) facilitated by major tech companies thriving in Middle East.

Shocking new findings by BBC Arabic.https://t.co/IEQ0NmCr7f

— Rashid Abdi (@RAbdiCG) November 2, 2019

Google, Apple & Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing & approving apps used for the buying & selling of domestic workers in the Gulf.#ChildrenForSale #OnlineSlavery #EndHumanTrafficking

.@BBCWorld: https://t.co/VW5znHJA49

— Youth Underground (@youthUNDG) November 1, 2019

Terrible >> Domestic workers are being illegally bought & sold in a booming black market carried out on Instagram & other apps

"What they're doing is promoting an online slave market" said Urmila Bhoola, the UN rapporteur on contemporary forms of slaveryhttps://t.co/rw4MftzJ6x

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) November 1, 2019

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/fPadp66cHF

— Africa Updates (@africaupdates) November 2, 2019

This is an important investigation on how social media apps are being used as slave markets https://t.co/KCRV6qSkGY

— Lulu Garcia-Navarro (@lourdesgnavarro) November 2, 2019

Why is Facebook and Google hosting/ supporting human trafficking??
They want to censor free speech and shut you down if you go against the narrative
So is the narrative human slave trade is ok then???https://t.co/MUDP5UFPrw

— Stephanie PPC, Ajax Canada (@SJack19942274) November 2, 2019

BBC News - Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/fZXSj2lyEJ

— Ousmane A. Diallo (@Usmaan_Aali) November 2, 2019

I know I'm always moaning on here that human trafficking is a moral panic, but that doesn't mean forced labor doesn't exist. It's a massive problem!

Just this week, the BBC found people in Kuwait literally buying and selling domestic workers. https://t.co/6dF0fGfyqg pic.twitter.com/OUi5JYyYK9

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) November 1, 2019

Slave markets found on Instagram and other appshttps://t.co/cXxzFkwt38

— Livid ??‍♀️ (@Livid2point0) November 2, 2019

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/N8ShaZMbVl

— uradn (@uradn) November 2, 2019

湾岸アラブのカジュアル人身売買に朝からドン引きhttps://t.co/7AkC6lz3fL

— くーりえ (@cuttercourier) November 2, 2019

Slave markets found on
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram, Google Play and Apple's App Store, as well as the e-commerce platforms' own websites like '4Sale' and Saudi Arabia's 'Haraj', another popular commodity app.https://t.co/bGFao7Sj9k

— ??Scooter's Wife ????? (@hdbiker52fl) November 2, 2019

Some Arabs are very sick!

How/Why would you treat a fellow human being like this? Yet claim to be a muslim?

BBC News - Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/8uIeNJj1I6

— Abdul Warfa (@ArchWarfa) November 2, 2019

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/B5OQA7WH1V

— idil (@idilatweets) November 2, 2019

Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps @rtenews @MICLimerick @limerickpost https://t.co/RgGl4NhHXP

— Kevin Hyland (@KevinHyland63) November 2, 2019