The latest issue of the annual Federal Human Trafficking Report shows how traffickers take advantage of social media sites to find victims, and Facebook alone accounts for more than half of traffickers' online recruitment.

The latest issue of the annual Federal Human Trafficking Report shows how traffickers take advantage of social media sites to find victims, and Facebook alone accounts for more than half of traffickers' online recruitment.

The 2020 report from the Human Trafficking Institute looks at every trafficking case in the federal court system during the year, during which there were 165 new cases and a total of 579 active criminal human trafficking cases to analyze. 93 percent of cases last year were sex trafficking cases, while the other seven percent were forced labor cases.

Noting "traffickers in 2020 active cases recruited their victims from a variety of physical locations, the internet was the most common... as has been the case every year since 2013," the Institute found 59 percent of online victim recruitment took place on Facebook.

Facebook is "by far the most frequently referenced website or app in public sources connected with these prosecutions, which was also true in 2019," the report adds.

"Surprisingly, despite Facebook's reputation as a less popular platform among teenagers, it was a more common platform for recruiting child victims than adult victims in 2020 active sex trafficking cases. In fact, 65% (68) of child victims recruitment on social media were recruited through Facebook, compared to just 36% (10) of adults."


The Human Trafficking Institute also found that Facebook-owned Instagram was responsible for 14 percent of child recruitment and 13 percent of overall website and app recruitment of human trafficking victims.

Shut em down.

(06-18-2021 05:13 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Shut em down.

Don’t expect that to happen.
Where would the creepy old liberals get their young girls?
Where would the liberals that post here get their young boys?

(06-18-2021 05:21 AM)CardinalJim Wrote:  

(06-18-2021 05:13 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Shut em down.

Don’t expect that to happen.
Where would the creepy old liberals get their young girls?
Where would the liberals that post here get their young boys?

Yep

Zuck strikes me as the type who would keep 2 or 3’in his basement.