Behind the screen: Child labour’s dark reality

Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dell rely on cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where over 40,000 children — some as young as seven — work in dangerous, often deadly conditions.

Despite sitting on trillions of dollars in mineral wealth, the DRC remains one of the world’s poorest nations, exploited by Big Tech and burdened by the lasting scars of colonialism.

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