Friday, June 21, 2024
A remote Amazon tribe has slammed "unfounded" and "untrue" reports that claimed the arrival of the internet led to some of its men becoming addicted to porn. Earlier this month, The New York Times published an article describing how Brazil's 2000-member Marubo tribe had been left bitterly divided by the arrival of the Elon Musk's Starlink service last year, which connected the remote rainforest community along the Itu River to the web for the first time. The piece, by journalist Jack Nicas, painted a picture of a community grappling with both the positives " such as access to health information in emergencies and video chats with loves ones " and negatives. |
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