
(AGENPARL) – mer 22 febbraio 2023 [Image]
Technological innovation, particularly in the telecommunication sector, has been a driving force for change in society – and its criminal underworld. Social media is routinely used to recruit victims of human trafficking. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, human traffickers have become increasingly aggressive in their tactics.
The Center for International Policy’s Global Social Media Harms Tracker has aggregated harms propagated or facilitated by social media platforms in the Global South, uncovering a disturbing trend of slave markets and human trafficking on social media within the Middle East and Northern Africa region.
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