Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
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What Sex Trafficking Looks Like — From Someone Who Lived It • The Lies My ‘Loverboy’ Told Me
This is the story of my friend Dolly She told it to me only one day after we met. I’ll never forget that soft and warm afternoon in June, with an orange sun hiding behind a tall building on Hollywood Boulevard, and my face wet with the stain of silent tears. ‘A lot of first things happened that year,’ Dolly said with a blank look in her eye, while soothing an imaginary painful spot underneath her ear. ‘It was my first time doing cocaine, my first time having sex — although not by choice — the first time getting pregnant, and the first time getting trafficked. It was a hell of a year!’ One hot summer day, as she was enjoying a date with her boyfriend on the beach in Atlantic City, where she was living at the time, Dolly’s life was cut short. He raped her, kidnapped her, and sold her into prostitution. At the time, Dolly was 15 years old and a virgin. Nobody went looking for her: she came from a broken home; her mother was absent and cold, and her father had made a new family with a much...
The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic • The Lies My ‘Loverboy’ Told Me
A poster in the window of Cahoots Corner Cafe—great potatoes, good coffee—advertised a family event at the Oakdale, California, rodeo grounds. There would be food trucks, carnival games, live music, a raffle, and the opportunity to support the cause of “freeing child sex slaves.” The event, called the Festival of Hope, was a fundraiser for the anti-child-sex-trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad, which was founded in Utah in 2013 and has achieved immense popularity on social media in the past year and a half, attracting an outsize share of attention during a new wave of concern about imperiled children. It is beloved by parenting groups on Facebook, lifestyle influencers on Instagram, and fitness guys on YouTube, who are impressed by its muscular approach to rescuing the innocent. (The nonprofit group is known for taking part in overseas sting operations in which it ensnares alleged child sex traffickers; it also operates a CrossFit gym in Utah.) Supporters commit to “...