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The owners were jailed and the website assets confiscated, but the role of Tony Ortega—Backpage’s notorious sex trafficking champion—remains to be fully explored.

The “Can You See Me?” campaign raises awareness and encourages reporting of human trafficking to rescue victims.

The United Nations passed an anti-slavery resolution on December 2 in 1949. Since then, humans owned by others have skyrocketed to 50 million worldwide. What will it take to stop this scourge?

As The Daily Beast nears oblivion, their CEO’s sordid past is rearing its ugly head. Their use of sources for articles with the same ugly history of which Sherwood stands accused probably isn’t helping. 

The Daily Beast’s desperation to exercise their anti-Scientology bigotry causes them to ignore the compromised and deeply disturbing backgrounds of their sources.

Backpage was seized and shut down by the government, its founder jailed (after another committed suicide). So why are reporters standing up for the site and its sex trafficking?

After years of legal battles over Backpage’s role in prostitution and exploitation of minors, a federal judge sentenced co-owners Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John Brunst to prison.

Demand to purchase sex in Hillsborough County, Florida, was so great that law enforcement needed an extra hotel room to carry out their sting operation.

Human trafficking is a $246 billion-a-year industry, or 0.26% of the world’s gross domestic product.

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.