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By Jamie Ouverson, Creative ProducerIn Analysis, California, Featured, News, Poverty/Justice, U.S., VideoPosted February 23, 2019

Illustration of cockroaches and the words "human trafficking'

Activists, law enforcement, and politicians cheered two events last April targeting human traffickers. First, the federal government seized Backpage.com, which carried online sex ads. Then, President Donald Trump signed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, a law intended to hold internet platforms accountable for facilitating sex...