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When Apple threatened Facebook with a ban

At a tipping point it seems how her relationship got to Apple with Facebook in 2019.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, based on internal Facebook documents, Apple threatened to ban it due to a BBC post about “selling slaves” via Instagram.

Then, there was one explosion in the online black market for the illegal purchase and sale of workers. The BBC report shed light on a world where working women served their masters, locked in their homes, deprived of basic human rights, without being able to leave and at the risk of being bought by anyone, with experts then characterizing these conditions as a modern form of slavery.

They were bought and sold through applications such as Facebook and Instagram with main countries Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The women were categorized by ethnicity and were worth several thousand dollars.

After the report Apple said on Facebook that it needs to do more to tackle human trafficking. He even stressed that Facebook made “limited moves” until Apple threatened to remove Facebook products from the App Store if it did not stop this practice.

According to the report, this practice has been known on Facebook since 2018. The BBC notified both Apple and Google, with the latter declaring “deeply concerned” by the findings, while Apple said it expects “immediate corrective action. »By the developers.

After reporting and communicating with Apple, Facebook found 300,000 cases of breach of the rules and deactivated more than 1,000 accounts, while the report also brought questions from the United Nations.

Most, Facebook has technology that detects and deletes content related to domestic servants, removing 4,000 posts in Arabic and English from January 2020 until today.

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