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Yami Baito: Inside Japan’s dark part-time jobs
How job postings on social media are luring people into organised crime in Japan.

The curse of the blessing scam
The female crooks who exploit superstition and family love to swindle other women.

The Baku initiative?
Is Azerbaijan capitalising on France’s struggle in the South Pacific?

An (online) storm in a Philippine rainforest
How a nature reserve in the Philippines got caught in an information battle

Iran: Woman, life, surveillance
We speak to women targeted by the Iranian government after posting on social media

Can we live without our phones?
Marianna Spring investigates the impact of social media on teens.

The scammers who make you kidnap yourself
Why are criminals tricking Chinese foreign students into faking their own kidnapping?

Scammed by the fake Chinese police
The con men who threaten to extradite their victims to China if you don’t pay “bail”

The American pushing Russian disinformation
An American ex-cop living in Moscow is pumping out messages targeting American voters

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