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“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.
— Lou Cahill, RN (@Cahill_Lou) November 1, 2019
Quick to cash in, tech giants have been slow to ensure their inventions don’t become weapons of abuse.#ModernSlavery #HumanTraffickinghttps://t.co/Du7zXyemRX
"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.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) November 1, 2019
These companies don’t care who gets hurt while aiming for ever higher advertising rates and engagement. https://t.co/Esa48NL08E
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.
— ود البيه (@khalidalbaih) November 1, 2019
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
How Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market in the Gulf
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 31, 2019
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Exclusive report by @BBCArabic https://t.co/BVl5gskzv2
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:
— Jerome Elam (@JeromeElam) November 1, 2019
Google, Apple and Facebook-owned Instagram are enabling an illegal online slave market by providing... https://t.co/Rr4AByZ3cT
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
— Gretchen Peters (@GretchenSPeters) November 1, 2019
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
There are still thousands of domestic workers being bought and sold on Instagram, Haraj, and other apps approved and provided by Google and Apple
— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) November 1, 2019
Watch the full exclusive report by @BBCArabic on https://t.co/wSZsH4oov0
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
— BBC North America (@BBCNorthAmerica) November 1, 2019
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Exclusive report by @BBCArabic https://t.co/UsphmZevUj
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.
— Steven Cotterill (@socialiststeve6) November 1, 2019
Mr. Zuckerberg should probably look into this. https://t.co/k927BU3nuq
“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
— Alaa al-Ameri (@AlaaAmeris) November 1, 2019
"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
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."
— Dianne Emerson (@Dianne_Emerson) November 1, 2019
BBC News - Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/q4vAafciEn
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.
— Migrant Rights (@MigrantRights) November 1, 2019
"African worker, clean and smiley," said one listing. Another: "Nepalese who dares to ask for a day off.>>
"https://t.co/ElPtoItEya
Women in kuwait being sold as slaves on instagram.
— Fee Chrystall (@Fee_oh_naah) November 1, 2019
Tell me again that we don't need feminism https://t.co/MrdHALoZkM
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."
— Dr Akinola Olojo (@Akinzo8) November 1, 2019
Slave markets found on Instagram and other apps https://t.co/OGrPUbPNow
"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.
— Rashid Abdi (@RAbdiCG) November 2, 2019
Shocking new findings by BBC Arabic.https://t.co/IEQ0NmCr7f
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
— Youth Underground (@youthUNDG) November 1, 2019
.@BBCWorld: https://t.co/VW5znHJA49
Terrible >> Domestic workers are being illegally bought & sold in a booming black market carried out on Instagram & other apps
— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) November 1, 2019
"What they're doing is promoting an online slave market" said Urmila Bhoola, the UN rapporteur on contemporary forms of slaveryhttps://t.co/rw4MftzJ6x
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??
— Stephanie PPC, Ajax Canada (@SJack19942274) November 2, 2019
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
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!
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) November 1, 2019
Just this week, the BBC found people in Kuwait literally buying and selling domestic workers. https://t.co/6dF0fGfyqg pic.twitter.com/OUi5JYyYK9
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
— ??Scooter's Wife ????? (@hdbiker52fl) November 2, 2019
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
Some Arabs are very sick!
— Abdul Warfa (@ArchWarfa) November 2, 2019
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
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