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we get it all wrong, mess things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking. watching our new to v w documentary, 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 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 are smugglers and the lucrative organized crime network that transport people and go, it's across the mexico, u. s. border. in collaboration with cartels,

they charge between $3.75 us dollars to bring someone across and accessing the elicit 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 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 b, i have 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 audit so you are using take talk, but then i realized that take talk was very important for priorities to increase their business to, 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 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. 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 going 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 platform's profit directly posts might contain advertising meetings. facebook gets a cut 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, rushing up millions of likes and views. but just how difficult is the jungle crossing from columbia to panama? in reality, that's what's manuel monteros, so from venezuela and that includes malick 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. foods have attracted tens of thousands of followers, manuel month or so no earns enough from social media. cities 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 one, unauthorized and dangerous immigration. that might be questionable, but human traffic goes use social media to make money to the people in the valuable position abroad with false promises. you found out more about how they do it. many traffickers used eating app, social media and encrypted messengers to ensnare victims promising love and a better life. it's called the lever boy method. aside from the letter boy message,

the german anti trafficking network, k o. k found the traffickers use big online job offers k ok, 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 used common tracking apps to monitor their victims. apps 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 it like map and check via gps and informed the parents on the on the where of the child. but the same device um, 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 phones. offer the traffic or secure anonymity. it's a brutal and a legal business that exploits and traumatized as 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, it can become victims. in certain countries in the middle east, the so called co follow system fosters exploitation. 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 for many. they are coming to the 5000 videos under the hash tag golf jobs on take talk alone. according to take does own analysis. they have already been viewed 54000000 times, but why does a job black under these conditions,

we spoke to an activist who has lifted us out. deborah young ciocca is finally 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 and the gulf states. after i came back, i had to promise 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 your review working 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 a what's up call for help. book fainted before she could die, lived. 3 hours later,

her employer came to find her. she pulled a pocket. there's a pocket before us in the bathroom where i used to use it for cleaning. she just took the top water 3 times for she just poured for me 3 times while under she loved the entire week. deborah ann took out past start 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 and to continue with the walk. like and nothing happened. so i started now seeing the life difference in that house. 70 percent of the canyon women who do domestic work abroad. go to saudi arabia, 9 percent due to jordan, others go to cuts our united arab emirates, egypt, lebanon,

and other gulf states like rain. the for mike 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 via tech talk. and once that, the, 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 an active as of the experiencing abuse. now she's helping

people escape exploited them. probably is, even though it was her in danger. deborah, in the 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 started to look on 6 rocking because it's the easiest way to reach many people are white or this. and it was a bit fit for me because i, i'm gonna put anything 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 next 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

super workers abroad per week. the remaining struggling they made it is very to me out uh through whatsapp 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 no can do deborah 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's own deborah online. just like photo we or in your to pres, look, so this way i phone the and then i'd say to share him with my proposal. so like i'm also new from but 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, you know, needs that make it switched off. but once we connected with the internet, if it's very easy, maybe when somebody has a problem, she's going to be telephone on facebook and don't take it off. and then we get students 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? smog knows than human traffic of that is no, that's it. from me. see is on the

which grandmother's name is it's. she had grandchild with a leg or a foot on it's mercury contamination of ground for illegal mining causes and environmental catastrophe, and gone in just 6 short years in this country, which is so reaching biodiversity could be importing war to the 77 percent. next on d w, the new will tell here we are happy that we are back to the story. we have a, getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to you the sales force, the for the present in the stories and issues that are being discussed across the country. news africa. in 60 minutes on d w. o.

we say they're never giving up every weekend on d w. the welcome to this. absolutely wonderful life production, which is a collaboration between dw and use. and so i'm use, my name is lori. so id be n and i. e took you money where he had to speak about a very local issue that's been affecting gonna together with join you. yes, thank you. is it this year? lots of guys have come together to fight against legal mind me because this troy on what's up with this. you can see even a lot has the sofa because of the legal meetings aside because most of the youth wide no doing or using this medium to get the source of income to not have any.