Migrant Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry say job brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving them feeling trapped and exploited
In Taiwan's AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited. Bluesky: @parismarx.com . X: @brianhioe , @restofworld , @gayath...
The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO, Albert Saniger, with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on workers in the Philippines; Nate had raised $50M+
#RIPNate Paul Rietschka / @prietschka : Can't wait until more and more of the ‘agentic’ revolution turns out to be (1) just ‘500 employees in Hyderabad,’ and (2) has some high-profile failures where ‘...
Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a “pig butchering” scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers
most of them Chinese—slept between shifts as scammers. Nearby, police seized thousands of devices with fake social-media profiles and financial records. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchen...
In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE
Here's Why TechRadar : Meta reveals major crackdown on organized crime scams Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity : Meta Addresses Pig-Butchering, Claims Two-Year Collaboration with Law Enforcement Wired ...
Behind the YouTube influencers, WhatsApp and Telegram groups, and services like FewFeed fueling Facebook's problem of creators profiting from viral “AI slop”
Gyan Abhishek is standing in front of a giant touch screen, like Jim Cramer on Mad Money or an ESPN talking head analyzing a football play. Threads: @jasonkoebler and @jenvalentino_nyt X: @jason_koebl...
X tests Not A Bot, requiring new, unverified users to sign up for a $1 annual subscription to be able to post and interact, in New Zealand and the Philippines
The owner of X, Elon Musk, has long floated the idea of charging users $1 to use the platform.
Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines, thousands of young workers log online every day to support …
A look at the global freelancer labor force on sites like 99designs, some of whom are early generative AI adopters and are most at risk of being replaced by AI
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk. — R Bluesky: @sesmith.bsky.social and @anabrandusescu.bsky.social . Mastodon: @w...
A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals
There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. Tweets: @brendannyhan , @kreissdaniel , @sivavaid , @kreissdaniel , @ayshardzn ,...
In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong Marcos is using TikTok and troll farms to rewrite his dictator father's violent past for young Filipinos
Hi! — This is Understanding TikTok - your TikTok update. My name is Marcus. Ravi Buddhavarapu / CNBC : In the Philippines, presidential frontrunner Bongbong seeks to rebrand Marcos' brutal legacy T...