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Apple Once Threatened Facebook, Instagram Ban Over Mideast Maid Abuse

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Apple Once Threatened Facebook, Instagram Ban Over Mideast Maid Abuse

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Two years ago, Apple threatened to withdraw Facebook and Instagram from its app store due to fears that the Facebook and Instagram platforms would be used to trade and sell maids in the Middle East.

After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook admitted in internal documents that it had “weakly implemented confirmed abuses” and saw Filipina maids complaining about abuse on social media networks. Apple gave in, and Facebook and Instagram remained in the app store.

But Facebook’s crackdown seems to have limited effect. Even today, a quick search for “khadima” or “maid” in Arabic will reveal some accounts, which contain photos of Africans and South Asians, with age and price listed next to the photos. Even so, the Philippine government hired a team of employees who searched only Facebook posts every day in an attempt to protect desperate job seekers from criminal gangs and unscrupulous recruiters using the site.

Although the Middle East is still an important source of work for women in Asia and Africa hoping to support their families, Facebook acknowledged that some countries region have “especially egregious” human rights issues when it comes to laborers’ protection.

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To other employers,” a Facebook document read. “In response, agencies usually tell them to be more accommodating.” The report added: “We also found that recruitment agencies ignored more serious crimes, such as physical or sexual assault, instead of helping domestic workers.”

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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