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Wads of cash, speedboats, booze and mobile phones are just some of the perks flaunted at young people on TikTok by illegal armed groups in Colombia looking to recruit fighters to their ranks.

Context identified more than 100 active TikTok accounts that appear to be run by members of groups that include the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as well as right-wing paramilitary groups like the Gaitanist Army of Colombia (EGC).

Ahead of Moldova’s pivotal parliamentary election on Sunday, waves of online disinformation have swept through the tiny Eastern European country, with the lives of 糖心传媒 people at the centre of the digital storm.

Social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook and Telegram, have been awash with fake content created by Russian influence campaigns seeking to discredit the country’s pro-European government, experts said.

As Bolivians head to the polls on Sunday to elect a president, Samuel Doria Medina, a top contender, is hoping his appeal to young voters on social media will pay off in a victory.

The business magnate has stood out in the campaign field for his lively, entertaining online posts that seem to have struck a chord with the nation’s youth.

On 3 November 2021, Meareg Amare Abreha, a professor at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was shot and left to die outside his home by men dressed in special forces uniforms.

A month earlier, Meareg’s son Abrham had reported two posts on Facebook which published his father’s location and falsely claimed that he was assisting the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, a rebel group at war with the Ethiopian government. Neither post was removed by Facebook’s moderators before Meareg’s murder.

Before helping fellow gamblers quit the roulette wheel or forgo the glory of a Royal Flush, Filipino Reagan Praferosa fought his own addiction – a passion that almost cost him his life.

Enthralled by the “big-shot identity” that came with early casino victories in Las Vegas and later in Manila, Praferosa went on to lose 50 million pesos ($873,515) in seven years.

Dehumanised and disposable is how Amazon workers in Poland, Germany and France described how they felt working in the online retail giant’s warehouses.

“You are no longer Julie or Ludovic, you are number 412, and you can be replaced by number 313,” El Djoudi Laouedj, an area manager and trade union member at Amazon’s Lauwin-Planque warehouse in France told Context.

Content moderators from the Philippines to Turkey are uniting to push for greater mental health support to help them cope with the psychological effects of exposure to a rising tide of disturbing images online.

The people tasked with removing harmful content from tech giants like Meta Platforms or TikTok, report a range of noxious health effects from loss of appetite to anxiety and suicidal thoughts.

As the popularity of social media and messaging apps grows, so does the volume of child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, on the internet, and 2024 was the , a new report shows.

European Union countries host more than 60% of child sexual abuse web pages identified in the last year, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), prompting calls for better regulations and reporting tools to protect potential victims.

In February, Thai and Myanmar authorities worked together to turn off electricity and the internet in an unprecedented operation to free thousands of trafficking victims forced to work in cyber-scam centres in Myanmar.

It succeeded, and some 7,000 people from 29 countries were .  

When Kasandra, a teenager in Bolivia, discovered she was pregnant at 15 as a result of rape, her already troubled life fell apart.

The unwanted pregnancy was a horrible milestone in the years of sexual abuse and beatings she had endured at the hands of her stepfather that began when she was 11.