Apple threatened to remove Facebook, Instagram apps from App Store over slavery posts
India TodayApple had threatened to remove Facebook and Instagram apps from the App Store over slavery posts in the middle east back in 2019. Facebook described engineers accessing problematic messages in maid-recruiting agencies' inboxes, including one in which a Filipina specifically is mentioned as being “sold” by her Kuwaiti employers. Facebook had then worked to remove the problematic posts, the company engineers found nearly three-fourths of the posts, including posts that showed maids in videos and screenshots of their conversations, occurred on Instagram. While Facebook disabled over 1,000 accounts on its websites, its analysis papers acknowledged that as early as 2018 the company knew it had a problem with what is referred to as “domestic servitude.” It defined the problem as a “form of trafficking of people for the purpose of working inside private homes through the use of force, fraud, coercion or deception.” Facebook had noted that it only scratched the surface of the problem and that domestic servitude content remained on the platform.
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