Sex Trafficking
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
May 20, 2023
Epstein had hosted numerous scientific luminaries at the island gathering.
Written by: Nur Ibrahim
March 23, 2023
And U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland did not say, "Some things shouldn't be kept secret."
Written by: Jordan Liles
June 8, 2022
"So many people have asked how I knew the sunglasses were a sign of potential trafficking," the ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 31, 2019
Yet another sex trafficking scare was promoted on social media in late 2019.
Written by: Bethania Palma
July 29, 2019
Viral scarelore posts about sex trafficking are not uncommon these days.
Written by: Bethania Palma
April 24, 2019
Although real cases of human trafficking are plentiful, the topic is the frequent focus of viral ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 12, 2018
The Hollywood actor's profane Tony Awards speech led to the recirculation of rumors that he was ...
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
June 5, 2018
Police investigated and concluded the site is actually an abandoned homeless camp.
Written by: David Emery
Nov. 30, 2017
Rihanna, LeBron James, and other celebrities took to social media to argue that the life sentenc ...
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: Kim LaCapria
March 28, 2017
A familiar urban legend about retail environments and human trafficking popped up again in a vir ...
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.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
June 10, 2016
A viral social media post claimed that young girls were being drugged with chloroform by ice cre ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
May 17, 2016
A woman's claim that she and her daughter were targeted by kidnappers at Kroger was swiftly debu ...
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