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Apple threatened to remove Facebook's apps from the App Store in 2019, following a BBC report that showed human traffickers set up 'slave markets' to sell women to the highest bidder, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The WSJ obtained internal documents from the social media firm that detail how its own employees were searching for human traffickers in the Middle East.

Facebook investigators found these groups posted advertisements for domestic workers as a front for selling women off as slaves or sex workers.

The WSJ found that Facebook does remove some of these pages, but it has yet to design a system that stops offenders from reposting under a new account.

On the other hand, fixing this system does not put money in Facebook's pocket and the company would rather

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