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x show examines how social media aids, human traffic, that's on shift after the break. i've been since will, and i'll have more well for the more well useful you next balance, you know, data stick with the exchange innovation, green, the green revolution global. so listen to a whole lot of crime. it's probably up to speed. if the care we subscribe to the center every friday. subscribe to plan. it's a real number in charlotte the currently more people than ever on the world wide in such a bed. nearby, facile,
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jessica middle passage gosh. find out about rubinez, stores, info, migrants, slavery and human trafficking us to the issues problem world wide, and only a few clicks away on social media, on facebook, schuman traffic as miss need migrants, promising then 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, you all these, these smugglers and the lucrative organized crime network that transport people and goods across the mexico, u. s. border. in collaboration with cartels, they charged me $33.75 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the elicit
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services is easier than ever. all thanks to the social media. welcome to the dark side of tech talk. here's smugglers advertise their services, and they do it in plain sight. just as you see on screen. calm and 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 vi his eyes that also need those guarantees that those guaranteed trips to the usa. this your volume of videos, a shocking, even for migration expert, guadalupe caught a, a couple data. i mean, i was like, how could you, it is there you are using take talk. but then i realized that take talk was very important for priorities to increase their business to be coming up. i 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 ads for people, smugglers appear alongside 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 information purposes on many of these, you know, transactions are basically done to watch some more than any chip talking facebook guidelines for bid posts that promote people smuggling. but the platforms are rife with them. what's more, the platforms profit directly posts might contain advertising the meanings.
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facebook gets a type, every time people search for coyotes and their services. there are many rule with refugees and migrant. 0 is on their way to the us. most commonly, travelers make the journey from columbia through the diarrhea and triangle to panama before crossing mexico to reach us tips on making the perilous journey. i know also coming from the migrants 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, that's what's manuel monteros, so from venezuela and that includes malik from india, wanted to find out appear, become influencers, giving tips like how to avoid ambushes and games in this region known as the diary in gap. both have attracted tens of thousands of followers. manuel month or so,
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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 what his new life is like in the land of opportunities. that'd be earning money from advise on unauthorized and dangerous immigration. that might be questionable, but human traffic goes use social media to make money to the you are 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 to german anti trafficking network, k ok found that traffickers use big online job offers k ok.
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interviewed people from west africa in europe who became victims in germany. once they arrived, their traffickers took their documents. they were then forced into jobs or 6 work against their will. the traffickers also use common tracking apps to monitor their victims that are used for best purposes, like when a parents want to know the meaning 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 no way 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 offers 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 forest labor. even people who enter another country legally, you can become victims. in certain countries in the middle east, the sole call it's kind of follow system foster's expectation. therefore, an housekeepers or construction workers have hardly any rights in order to work. job seekers need a local guarantor who is often the employer. this puts employee as in a position of great power. nevertheless, the prospect of better pay is tempting from any kind of the 5000 videos under the hash tag golf jobs on take talk alone. according to take those own analysis, they have already been viewed 54000000 times. but why does a job like under these conditions? we spoke to an activist who was lifted us out. a. deborah young ciocca is finally
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home. this time she's bringing other survivors with her. they are 3 of more than 100. so i was in canyon. women worked as me in the gulf states. after i came back, i had promised myself, like if i make it out 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 work in 18 to 20 hours a day. she says her employer refused to take her to the hospital when she got sick, she would say why just checking 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, there's
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a pocket before us in the bathroom. what i used to use it for cleaning. she just took a bit, tap water, 3 times florida. and she just bought from me 3 times and she loved the entire week . deborah yeah. and ciocca past state again. when she came to, she gathered enough strength to send a voice mail 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 following day, i came back on to continue with the walk. like and nothing happened. so i started now seeing the life difference in that house. 70 percent of the kenyan women who do domestic work abroad. go to saudi arabia, 9 percent, go to jordan. others go to cuts are united arab emirates, egypt, lab and on, and other gulf states like borrowing the for mike
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is there was kind of sliding these 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 to be a tech talk. and once that according to the u. n. women and children, especially at risk when it comes to modern slavery. this often happens through 4th marriages. for example, social media can sometimes also help those affect it to defend themselves. deborah, on the and ciocca became inactive as of the experiencing abuse. now she is helping people escape exploited this employee is even though it was her in danger. deborah
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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 excited to 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 almost got anything from idaho. so anything many people do, easy. yeah. she goes by the handled the lucky mom, but her job can be dangerous. i decided maybe to expose these platform maybe using my platform. and then i received threats because sometimes 6, the messages which are, which makes me feel insecure. encrypted messaging is a crucial tool for deborah indian ciocca. she communicates with up to 10 to miss stiff workers abroad per week. the. the remaining struggling they made it is
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very to me out uh through whatsapp. because i, i have shared in 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 have in youtube says look, so this way i found the and then i tried to share him with my profile. so like i'm also new from black net 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 use that make it switched off. but once we
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connected with the internet, if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem, she can retail with on facebook and don't take it off. and then we get tools 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 mad alphabet and take dogs, 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 smock, less than human traffic? of that is no, that's it. for me, she is doing the kind of always in cigna to start
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