Apple threatened to remove Facebook products from its App Store, after the BBC found domestic “slaves” for sale on apps, including Instagram, in 2019. The threat was revealed in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Facebook Archives, a series of reports based on its viewing of documents. internal Facebook.
Facebook says it bans human exploitation “in no uncertain terms”. He claimed that he has been “fighting human trafficking on our platform for many years.” The company added: “Our goal remains to prevent anyone looking to exploit others from having a home on our platform.”
The BBC News investigation exposed a booming online black market in the illegal buying and selling of domestic workers. It shed light on a world in which women endured a life of servitude and were held behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Experts said these conditions amounted to slavery. The exchange was carried out using a number of applications, including Instagram, owned by Facebook.