Towards the end of 2023, singer-songwriter Dua Lipa asked Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview if he could guarantee that the cobalt in her new iPhone 15 wasn’t mined by children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
“Yes we can,” Cook responded assuredly, evidently aware that his company – alongside the likes of Google, Microsoft and Tesla – had been accused of profiting from that exact practice just a few years prior.
