Ling Li is pursuing a PhD at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a focus on the role of technology in enabling sexual exploitation, modern slavery, and human trafficking in East and Southeast Asia. In the past few years, she has been providing support to survivors of scam compounds in Southeast Asia, interacting with local and international civil society organisations to bring them relief and help with repatriation. She is a co-author of Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds (Verso, 2025). Her articles have appeared in Critical Asian Studies, Trends in Organized Crime, 南洋问题研究, Global China Pulse, and The Conversation, among other outlets.
When the MaskPark incident broke in mid-2025, it jolted the Chinese internet (Hawkins 2025). Hidden behind the encrypted walls of Telegram—a platform officially blocked in China but accessible through virtual private networks (VPNs)—the story first came to light when a young woman accidentally discovered that her photos had been shared on the private MaskPark channel […]
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