From VOA News —
The online sale of sex slaves is going strong despite new U.S. laws
to clamp down on the crime, data analysts said Wednesday, urging a wider
use of technology to fight human trafficking.
In April, the United States passed legislation aimed at making it
easier to prosecute social media platforms and websites that facilitate
sex trafficking, days after a crackdown on classified ad giant
Backpage.com.
The law resulted in an immediate and sharp drop in sex ads online but
numbers have since picked up again, data presented at the Thomson
Reuters Foundation's annual Trust Conference showed.
"The market has been destabilized and there are now new entrants that
are willing to take the risk in order to make money," Chris White, a
researcher at tech giant Microsoft who gathered the data, told the event
in London.
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