➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: The fight against sex trafficking is bigger than Backpage (Opinion)
CNN – January 19, 2017
On January 9, after an investigation lasting over 21 months, a Senate subcommittee published a scathing report, finding that classified ads website Backpage.com knowingly facilitated online child sex trafficking on the “adult” section of its website. According to the report, Backpage did so by, among other things, filtering the text of advertisements to screen out words like “rape,” “schoolgirl” and “lolita” before posting them, to conceal the intent of the ads. Backpage also did not remove these advertisements or report them to law enforcement.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/18/opinions/backpage-sex-trafficking/index.html