Is there a reputable source for this?
It soulds plausible in general.
But the catfishing/trafficking part seems like a time-consuming and difficult way to get unskilled teenage girls as slaves when they have plenty of them in Russia.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
109 points (98.2% liked)
World News
38640 readers
1633 users here now
A community for discussing events around the World
Rules:
-
Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
-
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
-
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
-
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
-
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
-
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
-
Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
-
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
Lemmy World Partners
News !news@lemmy.world
Politics !politics@lemmy.world
World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world
Recommendations
For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/
- Consider including the article’s mediabiasfactcheck.com/ link
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
If the Kremlin wanted more wealth and power over a larger number of people and is willing to take in immigration and able to attract people, instead of trying to annex neighboring countries and their not-too-keen-on-being-annexed populations, they could just leverage immigration. Could just cut the whole annexing thing out of the equation and still grow.
Yeah but that would mean truly embracing capitalism
This is just so horrible.
This is fucked up, but those that make Wisconsin labor laws might be thinking Russia is just forward thinking.
(Wisconsin is working to legalize middle school and high school kids working from 4 pm until midnight during school, allow kids as young as 12 to work dangerous factory and slaughterhouse jobs, and let kids as young as 14 tend bar)
Interesting but going to have to wait for a bit more information/confirmation.
Wtf. This is so ducked up it can’t be true. Wtf!!!!!!11
Of course it can. Just read up some Russian history. If you think that some kind of abuse by the government is not possible, then Russian government did it many times already and in a lot worse ways.
For example, when the war started, some westerners were wondering why are there not that many protests in Russia. Sure the government can't just put everyone into jail. Guess what? 2k people went straight into jail during the first day of the protest on the first day of the war and 10k in the first week. Millions were sent to Gulags during Soviet times. Yes, Russian government can jail millions, not a big deal. And if jails will become overcrowded, millions will be shot. Again, happened many times before.
As for slavery, at least a quarter of Russia's population were slaves until 19th century. No other country in the world enslaved its own citizens on such scale.
Is a mastodon post a reliable source?
Maybe. But im sceptical.
view more: next ›