Human Trafficking
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 6, 2019
A viral warning enflamed widespread fears about drugs, violence and cross-border kidnappings.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Sept. 19, 2018
Sexual harassment in public spaces is widespread, but police said they had no evidence of traffi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 4, 2018
Viral social media posts exaggerated the impact of the actor's much-lauded efforts to end child ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 20, 2018
A congressional report and criminal indictment resulted from a 2014 incident in which multiple i ...
Written by: Brooke Binkowski
June 11, 2018
Disreputable web sites conflated a homeless camp in Arizona with a carefully orchestrated multi- ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
June 8, 2018
Authorities have determined a skull found roughly 20 miles from an abandoned homeless camp belon ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
May 26, 2018
An official from Health and Human Services reported to a Senate subcommittee that 1,475 unaccomp ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 1, 2018
A Vibrant Body Company bra promotion has been linked to rumors of a human trafficking scheme.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 28, 2017
An emotive Facebook post about the slave trade in Libya used photographs that were either unrela ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 29, 2017
One of many human trafficking warnings spread on Facebook in August 2017 involved a purported ki ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
June 21, 2017
A man took to Facebook to warn others about a stranger who kept "staring" at his wife.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 7, 2017
A woman's warning about a man who gave her a "bad feeling" at a Walmart in Coon Rapids, Minnesot ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
March 28, 2017
A familiar urban legend about retail environments and human trafficking popped up again in a vir ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 27, 2017
The "mainstream media" isn’t covering the discovery of a cargo container full of young black wom ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 28, 2017
Many Facebook users misinterpreted a post about missing children in Indiana as suggestive of a w ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Feb. 22, 2017
News reports conflated a genuine incident of human trafficking with a completely unrelated claim ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Aug. 8, 2016
Darboy, Wisconsin, is the latest location where human traffickers are purportedly engaging in co ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 20, 2016
Another rumor about human traffickers has been spread on Facebook, this one involving lures of f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 11, 2016
Police in Rochester, Minnesota, say no reports were received of attempted kidnappings during a f ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 15, 2016
Police say that viral warnings about a serial killer in Fresno and Tulare counties are not credible.
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