Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users
Published Date: 4/6/2022
Source: technologyreview.com
On a sunny morning last December, Iyus Ruswandi, a 35-year-old furniture maker in the village of Gunungguruh, Indonesia, was woken up early by his mother. A technology company was holding some kind of “social assistance giveaway” at the local Islamic elementary school, she said, and she urged him to go. Ruswandi joined a long line…