How Sex Traffickers Use Social Media to Find, Groom, and Control Victims Article
Social media is now the most common way traffickers make initial contact with their victims. Here’s how they do it.
Social media is now the most common way traffickers make initial contact with their victims. Here’s how they do it.
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Online predators search for teenagers who they think they can manipulate and sexually exploit. Often they create a false identity or pretend to be a teenager.
“I never told this to anyone, but when I was seven, one of the girls who was my neighbor introduced me to it, and then I couldn’t stop looking for it on my own. This girl also assaulted me many times.”
According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), about one-third of the vast number of child sex abuse images reported online are originally posted by children themselves.
The survey also showed that young people are as likely to see online porn accidentally as they are to actively search for it.
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According to one researcher, “Google refuses to host porn, but has no limits on observing the porn consumption of users, often without their knowledge.”