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From the Highways of Ohio to the Paris Olympics—Human Trafficking Needs to End Now
Human trafficking is a $246 billion-a-year industry, or 0.26% of the world’s gross domestic product.
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Victim’s Story Puts a Human Face on Tony Ortega’s Vile Defense of Backpage.com
A crescent scar etched into Alissa’s tender, innocent cheek, gives lasting testimony to the horrors once inflicted on helpless children by the notorious online brothel Backpage.com.
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Backpage Founders Lacey and Larkin Stand Trial on Charges of Facilitating Prostitution and Money Laundering
The trial of former Backpage.com owners Michael Lacey, James Larkin and five others began September 1 in an Arizona court, in a case that could have repercussions for media and the ethical guidelines it follows to govern its content.
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Tony Ortega: Sex Trafficking Apologist
Tony Ortega, out-of-work blogger and former child sex trafficking Backpage.com facilitator. He would attempt to discredit those who threatened his cash cow.
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Amazon’s New Law Enforcement Facial Tech Stirs Up Protests
With the news that Amazon currently is selling its new facial recognition software, Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies, a number of rights and privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have sounded the alarm.
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Lawmakers Demand Justice for Victims of Backpage
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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Backpage: Using Emojis to Traffic Children
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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Backpage, Tony Ortega and the “Sanitizing” of Sex Ads
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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Shutting Down Backpage’s Sex Trafficking Empire
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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The First Amendment Doesn’t Greenlight Child Sex Trafficking
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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Backpage Executives Charged with Pimping
How an online hub of sex trafficking weaves a web of lies to keep profits flowing, at untold cost to children’s lives.
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Backpage: In the Business of Child Sexual Exploitation
Online hub Backpage.com: Weaving a web of deceit, hiding behind protections for a free press, profiteers enabled sex trafficking of exploited children.
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Bring Them Home
Innovative, community-based programs aimed at ending homelessness among veterans are not only meeting, but exceeding their goals.
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Unreported Casualties
We see the staggering numbers, and yet somehow they don’t shock us nearly as much as they should.
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Baltimore’s Dilemma
There was nothing about Freddie Gray that was considered particularly remarkable before his life was cut woefully short at 25 this past spring…
