Did Philippine gig workers help Jeffrey Epstein clean up his online image?

As Manila scrambles to investigate links between convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a Philippines-based team he allegedly hired to scrub his criminal history from the web, a relatively obscure industry in the Southeast Asian country has come under the microscope due to the revelation. Emails released by the US Department of Justice have alarmed Filipino lawmakers on the potential exploitation of gig workers from the Philippines handling online-reputation work of a shady nature. The...

By Sam Beltran