Pizzagate, International version 2.0

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http://www.domigood.com/2019/11/report-instagram-other-apps-sold-in.html
Report: Instagram, other apps sold in Google, Apple app stores being used to facilitate human trafficking


A new report from the BBC has revealed that human traffickers are using social media platforms and easily obtained apps to sell domestic slaves.




Human traffickers are allegedly using Instagram and other applications that are easily available for download or purchase through both Google's and Apple's online app stores.


What are the details?

A team from BBC News Arabic, who posed as a husband and wife, went undercover in Kuwait to get up close and personal with what they believed to be were human traffickers selling slaves on social media.


In video posted Tuesday, the team said, "In the Gulf, women employed as 'domestic workers' are being sold via online apps approved and provided by Google and Apple. It's been called an online slave market."


The team met with several purported human traffickers, and in one instance, was shown a 16-year-old girl from Guinea, West Africa, to purchase for just $3,800.
The network reported that much of the business has been "carried out on Facebook-owned Instagram, where posts have been promoted via algorithm-boosted hashtags, and sales negotiated via private messages."
You can read more on the team's findings here.
What else?

Urmila Bhoola — UN Special Rapporteur, Contemporary Forms of Slavery — told BBC News Arabic, "This is the quintessential example of modern slavery. Here we see a child being sold and traded like chattel, like a piece of property."
Bhoola added that tech companies allowing this type of behavior to proliferate should also be held accountable.


http://www.domigood.com/2019/11/texas-planned-parenthood-wanted-to-sell.html

Texas Planned Parenthood wanted to sell aborted baby livers for $750 each, Daleiden trial reveals


Testifying on the witness stand Monday, pro-life activist David Daleiden claimed that Texas Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast planned to "move forward" with a deal he pitched to them as an undercover investigator to sell aborted baby livers at $750 each.


 

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https://boingboing.net/2019/11/01/in-kuwait-domestic-laborers-a.html
In Kuwait, domestic laborers are bought and sold on Instagram






“You can wake her up at 5AM, she won't complain.”
Slavery is one of many industries made more efficient by Silicon Valley, and specifically, Facebook-owned Instagram.

A new BBC investigation reveals the widespread online sale of human beings in the mideast for domestic labor. The buyers and sellers use services from Instagram, Facebook, Apple, and Google to facilitate slavery transactions.
Housekeepers and nannies are purchased and sold as slaves through Instagram, promoted using hashtags, and promoted on other apps in Google Play and Apple's App Store.
These workers live their lives in Kuwait mostly behind closed doors, invisible and with no rights to protest abuse by their employer/enslavers.
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After being alerted to the issue, Facebook said it had banned one of the hashtags involved.
Google and Apple said they were working with app developers to prevent illegal activity.
The illegal sales are a clear breach of the US tech firms' rules for app developers and users.
However, the BBC has found there are many related listings still active on Instagram, and other apps available via Apple and Google.
 

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https://sputniknews.com/europe/2019...fy-his-bbc-interview-claims-on-epstein-links/

Earlier, reports emerged that Queen Elizabeth II did not approve of Prince Andrew’s decision to give the BBC Newsnight interview, as the royal faces fallout from his ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and allegations of child sexual abuse that he has repeatedly denied.

Prince Andrew’s recent claims he “never really partied” and avoided “public displays of affection” have been dealt a serious blow as footage of the Duke of York engaging in some serious partying with young women in St Tropez has been exclusively revealed by MailOnline today.
“Crazy years for Andrew”

Prince Andrew is shown at a seemingly raucous party thrown by wine tycoon Claude Ott on the French Riviera in July 2008, just weeks after his disgraced friend Jeffrey Epstein admitted trafficking an underage girl.
In the footage the Prince appears to look quite disheveled and is then seen leaving the party with a bevy of beautiful women.
Photos from the 2000s also appear to contradict his earlier claims regarding partying and PDA, as he is seen sweating and embracing a number of women including socialite Chris Von Aspen.
In footage dated July 2007 Prince Andrew is seen hugging Canadian socialite Pascale Bourbeau at a party in Saint-Tropez, France.
Earlier, at the start of the decade, the royal is seen chatting to German supermodel Heidi Klum at a Hookers and Pimps-themed Halloween party in New York in October 2000, also attended by Epstein's alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
A former Saint-Tropez reveler is quoted by the publication as saying:
“These were really crazy years for Andrew. He was clearly having a full-blown midlife crisis. He would have been 47 or 48 at the time, divorced from Sarah Ferguson, and basking in the attention he got from young women. These were private parties held at mansions so I guess he felt he could let his guard down.”​
Duke of York faces backlash

The latest video and pictures have put Prince Andrew under yet more scrutiny as he earlier appeared in a “car crash” BBC Newsnight interview to insist he “did not sweat” or “indulge in public displays of affection” with women while attempting to defend his friendship with disgraced American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly killed himself in prison amid an investigation on suspicion of organising a paedophile ring.