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sticks north human traffickers and some others are using social media channels to help them. us after a short break for me and the team here in berlin. thanks for watching and i'll see you again at the top of the next or take care of the gentleman with c w plus or emphasizing the award winning offer is available world wide. every language level. reading gentleman has never been since that. the only way i can be on the top is to create my own empire, discover stories that just to take away the journey, the destination, right?
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find this document trees named street slavery and human trafficking us to the issues problem world wide and only a few clicks away on social media on facebook, human traffic as mislead migrants, promising them lucrative jobs in industrialized countries don't take talk, so called communities also help in crossing the us border, but in very dangerous ways. how are they doing this? over 2500000 people were apprehended by the united states border patrol in 2022. many of them were brought into the country by so called co t's these smugglers and the lucrative organized crime that worked at transport, people and goods across the mexico. u. s. border. in collaboration with cocktails. they charge between $3.75 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the
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listed services is easier than ever. all things to the social media. welcome to the dark side of tech talk. here's smugglers advertised their services and they do it in plain sight. just as you see on screen comments, sections are chalk full of requests for more information. they are then invited to chad privately. these posts are easy to find. just a quick search for the i have, i start those who need those guarantees that those guaranteed trips to the usa, the sheer volume of videos of shocking, even for migration expert, guadalupe caught a, a couple data. i mean, i was like, how could you auditor are using take talk, but then i realized that take talk why it's very important for priorities to increase their business to be coming up a very important facilitator. the videos are usually simple. a few pictures of travelers of a city in the us and
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a message to assure future customers. it's an industry that's also flourishing on facebook, on the platforms marketplace. as for people, smugglers appear along side ads for use cell phones and cars. facebook marketplace makes it easy to get in touch with the sellers. a direct and private chat is just a click away. however, put a template i chose as the platform is mainly used to seek out information, not for payment. a number of times they get information about the fees about the route. it's an informing some purposes. and many of these, you know, transactions are basically done to watch some more than any kid talking facebook guidelines for bid posts that promote people smuggling. but the platforms are rife with them. what's more, the platforms profit directly post might contain advertising meetings. facebook
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gets a cut every time people search for coyotes and their services. there are um many roll with refugees and migrant zeros on their way to the us. most commonly trouble us make the journey from columbia through the dairy and triangle to panama, before crossing mexico to reach us tips on making the perilous journey. i know also coming from the migraines themselves, many refugees post their experiences on social media. almost like tutorials reckoning up millions of likes and views. but just how difficult is the jungle crossing from colombia to panama in reality witness. that's what's manuel, monteros suff and venezuela. and that includes malik from india, wanted to find out the peer has become influencers, giving tips like how to avoid ambushes and games in this region known as the diary and gap. both of attracted tens of thousands of followers,
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manuel month or so no earns enough from social media studies move back in our lives in his home country of columbia and coach molly has stayed in the us since emigrating there. now he shows his followers with his new life, his light in the land of opportunity to be earning money from advise on unauthorized and dangerous integration. that might be questionable, but human traffic goes use social media to make money to the people in a valuable position abroad with false promises. you found out more about how they do it. many traffickers used eating apps, social media, and encrypted messengers to ensnare victims promising love and a better life. it's called the letter boy method. aside from the letter boy method, the german anti trafficking network, k o. k found that traffickers use big online job offers k ok,
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interviewed people from west africa and europe who became victims in germany. once they arrived there traffickers took their documents. they were then forced into jobs or 6 work against their will. the traffickers also used common tracking apps to monitor their victims that are used for best purposes, like when a parents want to know the belonging of that child. they want to install an app that puts like map and track via g p. s and informed the parents on the on the where of the child. but the same device or the same up can be used by a traffic car to have control of the victim and know where he or she is. traffickers also use digital wire transfers like big coin to collect their earnings, making the flow of money very hard for authorities to track mobile networks and
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phones, offer the traffic or secure anonymity. it's a brutal and illegal business that exploits and traumatize us vulnerable people. the un estimates that up to 50000000 people worldwide live in slavery like conditions more than half of them are subjected to forced labor, even people who enter another country legally you can become victims and certain countries in the middle east, the so called kind of follow system foster's expectation, therefore, and housekeepers all construction workers have hardly any rights in order to work. job seekers need a local guarantor who is often the employer. this puts employees in a position of great power or never the less the prospect of better pay is tempting . so many, they are coming to the 5000 videos on the have to go jobs on take talk alone, according to take their own analysis. they have already been viewed 54000000 times . but why does a job like under these conditions? we spoke to an activist who is lifted us out. ringback deborah young ciocca is
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finally home. this time she's bringing other survivors with her. they are 3 of more than 100000 canyon women. worked as me and the gulf states. after i came back, i had promised myself, like if i make you felt of this country, i'm going to become as books possible for those people can speak for themselves. deborah lived in her employer's home and so do a review working 18 to 20 hours a day. she says her employer refused to take her to the hospital when she called sick, and she will tell you, i just um, searching everything. you're not sick. so it became that i became more week more week and then i'd say that like, i'm going to wait to die and she went to the bathroom to make up what zip code for health books painted before. she could dial out 3 hours later, her employer came to find her. she put a pocket,
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they've got pocket and twisting the bathroom. well, i used to use it for cleaning she just or so it could be a top ortho, 3 times florida. and she just poured for me 3 times twice. and when she left there during the entire week, deborah indian ciocca passport again. when she came to, she gathered enough strength to send a voicemail to our canyon agent. to force the family to take her to the hospital. but after just one day, she was sent back to work the front of me to come by and to continue with the walk . uh like and nothing happened. so i said, no, seeing the life difference in that house. 70 percent of the kenyan women who do domestic work abroad. go to saudi arabia, 9 percent booty, jordan, others go to cats are united arab emirates, egypt, lebanon, and other gulf states like rain. the for mike
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is there was kind of slight mist treatments like, you know, it's, you know, given enough food or sometimes in time, even with given food. but then i, i didn't, i didn't see as much much suited mistreatment like they are, the ones who are beaten according to the canyon, eat organization hockey, africa in 2020 a lot. there were more than 51 complaints of abuse from canyon domestic workers based in gulf country. most of these women had funding their jobs via take talking . and once that according to the u. n. women and children, especially at risk when it comes to modern slavery. this often happens to force marriages, for example, social media can sometimes also help those affect it to defend themselves. deborah, on the and ciocca became an active as of the experiencing abuse. now she's helping people escape exploited that and probably is even though it was her in danger.
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deborah indian ciocca is calling out the abusers of canyon domestic workers. women or families of victims contact her for help. she holds live streams, explaining how the women have been harmed, and named the agent who brought the victim to the gulf. i prefer it to your fair look on 6 talking because it's the easiest way to reach many people are white or this. and it was a bit fit for me because i'm a part of thing from idaho. so anything many people do is yeah, yeah. she goes by the handled the lucky mom, but her job can be dangerous. i decided maybe to expose this platform maybe using my platform and then i received threats cause sometimes 6 semester just which are which makes me feel insecure. encrypted messaging is a crucial tool for deborah indian ciocca. she communicates with up to 10 to me, steve workers a broad per week. the remaining struggling they made it is very to me
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out uh through workshop because i, i have shared my number in my platforms. uh because i've been to that i know uh with life and is between the deb rinni and ciocca, so she's helped more than a dozen women, including naomi mo, can do debra pressure naomi's boss and agency via what's up and posted videos about her treatment until they agreed to let her come home. naomi found deborah online, just like photo we in you to pres, look, so this way i phone the and then i tried to share him with my proposal. so like i'm also new from what's that and whatnot? deborah's network has grown so much that other women refer maids and distress to her. staying connected is key to bringing women back home when they get to that they can, your needs that may be switched off. but once we connected with the internet,
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if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem, she can reach out to him on facebook and don't take it off. and then we get to, to help them out, social media and makes it easy for human traffic as in smugglers to take advantage of people. people who only want a better life. and unfortunately, only a fraction of cases i exposed companies like meta, alphabet and take docs, parent company by them, struggling to prevent the misuse of their platforms. but what do you think? should social media platforms be doing more to combat smog? those on human traffic of that there's no, that's it from me. see is doing the when i was younger, kind of the best one of the most part of choice. it was stigmatized my generation, these cannabis as a part of our culture. no,
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we're not doing that. here's the marijuana cruise strongly conflicts, but sometimes for unexpected reason. we the new young generations want to change our region lucky, older generations, equal rejected legalization. and then when generations class next on the algorithms instead of paints and brushes, artificial intelligence is conquering the art world. new technology and so are becoming ever more creative. but can they replace humans as authors and makers? and do we even want to that can artists and a co exist to get ready for an exciting i didn't tell you, little surprised. i am shop now and i am ready to dive into the house of germany to
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us. you finally have you as a one does not do need the support of this card via included in the on the vehicle dish pas proffer and the, and expect the size of life. and you know, it's not it's not my choice when it comes to candidates because i am not a kind of his person i smoke because i want to, you know, we're not doing that. my mom sees drugs specifically in one hand and then hand cups in the other the .

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