this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2024
236 points (99.6% liked)

World News

38887 readers
1860 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"without noticing" is pulling a lot of weight in that headline. Innocent until proven guilty and all that but I'm willing to bet there were at least some individuals 'in' on the deal.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

Considering mcDs is moving towards prison labor now i absolutely believe they've at least deliberately crafted a hiring policy that allows for this and other abuses of labor and law.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.

I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.