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Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by naptu2: 1:45pm On Sep 23, 2021
Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram


The BBC found women illegally bought and sold as domestic workers

Apple threatened to remove Facebook's products from its App Store, after the BBC found domestic "slaves" for sale on apps, including Instagram, in 2019.

The threat was revealed in the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) Facebook Files, a series of reports based on its viewing of internal Facebook documents.

Facebook says it prohibits human exploitation "in no uncertain terms".

It says it has been "combating human trafficking on our platform for many years".

The firm added: "Our goal remains to prevent anyone who seeks to exploit others from having a home on our platform."


Hashtag slavery

The BBC News Arabic investigation exposed a booming online black market in the illegal buying and selling of domestic workers.

It shed light on a world in which women endured a life of servitude and were kept behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Experts said these conditions amounted to slavery.

The trade was carried out using a number of apps including Facebook-owned Instagram.

The posts and hashtags used for sales were mainly in Arabic, and shared by users in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The women were often categorised by race, and available to buy for a few thousand dollars.

The WSJ reported that following the BBC investigation, Apple told Facebook to do more to tackle human trafficking.

It said the social media giant only took "limited action" until "Apple Inc. threatened to remove Facebook's products from the App Store, unless it cracked down on the practice".

The BBC has approached Apple about the claim.

The paper also quoted a 2019 internal report from Facebook, suggesting that the social media giant knew about, and had been investigating, the online slave trade before the BBC got in contact.

In the report, a Facebook researcher writes: "Was this issue known to Facebook before BBC inquiry and Apple escalation?

"Yes. Throughout 2018 and [the first half of] 2019 we conducted the global Understanding Exercise in order to fully understand how domestic servitude manifests on our platform across its entire life cycle: recruitment, facilitation, and exploitation."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxz-vmbFXd4
BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation exposed the buying and selling of domestic workers in the Gulf

After the 2019 BBC report, Facebook banned the main hashtag used for the trade and removed hundreds of accounts from Instagram.

"We will continue to work with law enforcement, expert organisations and industry to prevent this behaviour on our platforms," it said in response to the investigation.

However, at the time the story was published the BBC found women were still advertised for sale on the platform.


Apple acts

The BBC also alerted Google and Apple, as apps in which women were listed for sale were available via their smartphone app stores.

The illegal sales are a clear breach of the US tech firms' rules for app developers and users - both firms said they worked with the developers to prevent illegal activity.

Google said it was "deeply troubled" by the findings, Apple said it expected developers to take "immediate corrective actions".


A domestic worker advertised for sale on Instagram

Facebook's response
Following the concerns raised by the BBC and Apple in 2019, Facebook "began moving faster", the WSJ said.

It added that "a proactive sweep" looking for human trafficking "found more than 300,000 instances of potential violations and disabled more than 1,000 accounts".

The BBC report also prompted questions from the United Nations.

In its June 2020 response to these, Facebook wrote: "Following an investigation prompted by an inquiry from the BBC, we conducted a proactive review of our platform. We removed 700 Instagram accounts within 24 hours, and simultaneously blocked several violating hashtags."

The following month the company said it removed more than 130,000 pieces of Arabic-language speech content related to domestic servitude in Arabic on both Instagram and Facebook.

It added that it had also developed technology that can proactively find and take action on content related to domestic servitude - enabling it to "remove over 4,000 pieces of violating organic content in Arabic and English from January 2020 to date".

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58645547.amp

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by naptu2: 1:45pm On Sep 23, 2021

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Flexherbal(m): 1:45pm On Sep 23, 2021
Apple threatened to remove Facebook's products from its App Store, after the BBC found domestic "slaves" for sale on apps, including Instagram, in 2019.

No room for slavery.

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by BigDawsNet: 2:03pm On Sep 23, 2021
Slave market
Nine out of 10 Kuwaiti homes have a domestic worker - they come from some of the poorest parts of the world to the Gulf, aiming to make enough money to support their family at home...

Africans, especially ladies should stop going to this Arabian countries with the purpose of working as a maid...

Nobody return back home to build mansion or buy even Toyota ...stay in Nigeria or move to other African countries if you can't afford to relocate to first world countries

God bless you....

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by slawormiir: 2:03pm On Sep 23, 2021
Damnnn niggar
Isoright....ban their gadamnnn asss

Nor mind Facebook.....where them suppose act them nor go green act


If na to dey kill niggarrrr Facebook and Instagram them go do am shaperly

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Chrizzz: 2:03pm On Sep 23, 2021
Those who commented on this thread before me are jobless grin grin

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by brosom(m): 2:03pm On Sep 23, 2021
Godzilla vs Kong,

Let'em fight, we watch.

Grab my popcorn grin grin

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by thatsleepboy1: 2:04pm On Sep 23, 2021

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by chidonweb(m): 2:04pm On Sep 23, 2021
Nawa oo.
Slavery in this modern era
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by MrrGary: 2:04pm On Sep 23, 2021
Lool

Unar don eat belle full
E nor concern me... lipsrsealed

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by NotoriousBiggyS: 2:04pm On Sep 23, 2021
Those Arab are devil incarnate, northern Nigeria got those evil attitude from them

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Hezzyluv: 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
I hear
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Hangmnk: 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
Hmm
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by diplomat058(m): 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
By product of bad governance. No single British, Japanese or American will be on that list of Slaves. Citizens of poorly governed countries like Nigeria and most African and Asian countries are the unlucky ones there

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by bigdammyj: 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
Noted
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Kindness218: 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by alnino94(m): 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by IdJack(m): 2:05pm On Sep 23, 2021
Waiting for Mark to response

Kindly check my signature for your business ideas and updates.
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Goke7: 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
odikpa serious
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by sidieladaniel: 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
Where is pocohantas sef
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by ThinkSmarter: 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
Earth will really transform into a paradise in the near future.
From outlaw of slave trade to blacklives matter to naming of terrorism financers by UAE.
One day, democratic rule and freedom of religion will return to conservative states like iran and afghanistan.
By then, No one will be willing to fight for any creator deity

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Tabletuner(m): 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
Flexherbal:
Waiting for details

I wonder what other details you are waiting for

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Solitechworld(m): 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by ednut1(m): 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
Avoid anything arab country o. Those people are sub human

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by TheWolfen(m): 2:06pm On Sep 23, 2021
Apple and Facebook what difference sef. Birds of a feather. The last time I heard apple are trying to start scanning people's phone...

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by calculator123(m): 2:07pm On Sep 23, 2021
Format to wash their hands.

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by cococandy(f): 2:07pm On Sep 23, 2021
The things money makes people do
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by superemmy(m): 2:07pm On Sep 23, 2021
This can only happen to blacks in this 21st century
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Sirpaul(m): 2:08pm On Sep 23, 2021
Apple, Facebook, Instagram all na same.
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by surrogatesng: 2:08pm On Sep 23, 2021
is slavery allowed in the bible or quoran?
Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by Numerouno94(m): 2:08pm On Sep 23, 2021
Gud one from Apple. Mark always feeling funky. Btw, Arab= Islam= Evil.

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Re: Apple Threatened Facebook Ban Over Slavery Posts On Instagram by GeneralPula: 2:09pm On Sep 23, 2021
Africa women will be many..

A particular tribe from Nigeria will dominate 60%..

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