You know who never mentions any of the Right-wing child sex trafficking conspiracy theories raging around the internet? The organizations that have spent years and years battling child sex trafficking.
When the actual issue of child sex trafficking - which is absolutely real and serious and deserves our attention - is conflated with debunked Right-wing conspiracy theories, it causes people to put their energies in the wrong places.
The Polaris Project, a national organization that fights human trafficking, had to release a statement asking people to stop calling about Wayfair - the home goods products store - because it was overwhelming the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
Why? Because a debunked Right-wing conspiracy theory has ricocheted around social media which claims that the company has coded listings for missing children being sold at exorbitant prices in a child sex trafficking scheme.
The other problem is that the issue of child sex trafficking is suddenly being used by Right-wingers to deflect from all sorts of other important issues.
So, please stick with the organizations that have been doing this work for decades. Get your information from them, not misinformation warfare social media posts.
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