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14.02.23

Big Tech

‘Please Acknowledge the Dick’: Inside a catfishing factory

Remote workers are being paid a pittance to play fictional women messaging men who sign up for sex-chat services

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29.01.23

Big Tech

‘Sham credibility’: how UK shell companies fuel ‘pig-butchering’ crypto scams

Criminal gangs are exploiting lax regulation to use the UK as a base for carrying out industrial-scale fraud

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21.11.22

Big Tech

The eyes of Amazon: a hidden workforce driving a vast surveillance system

How low-paid employees in India and Costa Rica power the system used to monitor warehouse workers

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20.10.22

Big Tech

Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators

Moderators told the Bureau they faced inadequate psychological support to deal with the endless stream of disturbing content and had to work to gruelling performance targets

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