| Title | Facebook is a Hub of Sex Trafficking Recruitment in the US, Report Says | |
| Date | Wednesday June 16 2021, @12:36AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
| Topic | ||
| from the more-you-know dept. | ||
Facebook is the most commonly used social media platform for human sex trafficking recruitment in the US, according to a new report published by the Human Trafficking Institute.
Last year, 59 percent of victims in active cases who were recruited through social media were found through Facebook, the report states, with 41 percent of all recruitment taking place online.
“The Internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and they often recruit them on a number of very common social networking websites,” Victor Boutros, CEO of the Human Trafficking Institute, told CBS News. “Facebook overwhelmingly is used by traffickers to recruit victims in active sex trafficking cases.”
The 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report draws its data from active federal criminal and civil human trafficking cases.
[...] Part of the reason why the Internet—and likely Facebook by extension—is so prevalent in the report is because it only considers federal cases. In those cases, law enforcement appears to rely heavily on the Internet for its investigations.
| Links |
printed from SoylentNews, Facebook is a Hub of Sex Trafficking Recruitment in the US, Report Says on 2024-04-19 00:20:17