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Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering

  • Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess--Wired
  • published date: 2024-11-21 18:00:00 UTC

The company gave details for the first time on its approach to combatting organized criminal networks behind the devastating scams.

Since roughly 2020, when the earliest pig butchering scams started to emerge, more than 200,000 people have been trafficked and held in compoundsmost in Myanmar, Cambodia, or Laoswhere they are forceā€¦ [+2262 chars]