Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and majority of voting stock owner of Facebook, uses Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to facilitate and promote Child Sex Trafficking. How would Mark and Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg feel if his Facebook organization allowed Child Sex Trafficking of their own children? Would he then police Facebook sufficiently enough to prevent every form of Child Sex Trafficking forever on Facebook if their children were exposed to this deplorable and despicable behavior? Absolutely!

Facebook may be held accountable for knowingly benefiting from sex traffickers who have used his social network to ensnare victims, the Texas Supreme Court ruled. Sex Trafficking is a CRIME!

This website will be a repository of information regarding how Facebook and others condone and promote Child Sex Trafficking with impunity. Facebook is the most egregious of all the social media websites and apps that allow Child Sex Trafficking to proliferate. Hopefully this website content (FacebookSexTrafficking.com) will inform the public and help alleviate and prevent this plethora of ongoing Human Sex Trafficking through Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg has become a Multi Billionaire, in part due to the abundance of Human Trafficking and Child Sex Trafficking on Facebook, and he attempts to hide behind Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which the United States Congress needs to repeal.  

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook may temporarily escape Antitrust lawsuits but Child Sex Trafficking and Human Trafficking are an entirely different matter that aren't as easy to avoid.

Some members of US Congress believe Mark Zuckerberg should be sent to prison for his actions!

The victims of Facebook's alleged sex trafficking were so fearful of what Facebook might do that they sought and were granted a Restraining Order and Temporary Injunction from the courts.

Texas Supreme Court Ruling Against Facebook In Sex Trafficking Case Threatens Key Legal Shield For Social Media Platforms

Facebook can’t be sued for what people say on its platform, but it can be for letting sex traffickers get away with using the site as a recruiting tool, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday, opening the door to more lawsuits and setting up a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that could erode a key legal protection for social media companies.

FACTS
The ruling allows civil lawsuits to proceed that were filed by three victims of sex trafficking against Facebook for allegedly failing to stop child predators from using its messaging services to recruit them.
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Facebook had argued that it was not responsible for what users say on its site based on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields social media companies from liability for bad things its users do, like making death threats. 
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The Texas Supreme Court justices ruled that Facebook’s argument did not apply because Congress in 2018 passed exceptions to Section 230 that permit civil lawsuits against media platforms for violations of state and federal human trafficking laws.
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Facebook is “reviewing” the ruling and “considering potential next steps,” a spokesperson told Forbes.
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The decision was 6-0, though two justices did not take part.

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“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that section 230 does not allow it. Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing,” Justice Jimmy Blacklock wrote for the majority.

KEY BACKGROUND
The court’s ruling could have an impact beyond the three lawsuits it involves, says attorney Carrie Goldberg, who has sued social media companies for not protecting users from predators and abusers. “This puts pressure on the tech [companies] to reform,” she said. If Facebook is more vulnerable to being sued, it will make its products safer to avoid lawsuits, she said, just as carmakers and baby crib makers have done: “Because there’s major financial consequences” for losing. Goldberg, who is representing clients pursuing legal action against Facebook and Instagram right now, said the relative lack of case law against social media companies for the harms that occur on their platforms means that the Texas ruling—despite only setting precedent for Texas—is likely to be cited in opinions in other states. ​

​WHAT TO WATCH FOR
Facebook can appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that would give the court the chance to issue a ruling that goes further than the child trafficking exceptions to Section 230, potentially imperiling a key legal shield for the tech industry. “If you open it up, they could narrow the whole scope of Section 230,” said Jeff Kosseff, a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy and the author of a book on the history of the law. He noted that Justice Clarence Thomas has said he believes Section 230 is too broadly interpreted in favor of the tech companies.

​Forbes - Graison Dangor June 25, 2021

Over half of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases last year occurred on Facebook, report says

The majority of online recruitment in active sex trafficking cases in the U.S. last year took place on Facebook, according to the Human Trafficking Institute's 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report.

"The internet has become the dominant tool that traffickers use to recruit victims, and they often recruit them on a number of very common social networking websites," Human Trafficking Institute CEO Victor Boutros said on CBSN Wednesday. "Facebook overwhelmingly is used by traffickers to recruit victims in active sex trafficking cases."

Active cases include those in which defendants were charged in 2020, as well as those in which defendants were charged in previous years and charges were still pending in trial last year or the case was on appeal.

Data from the last two decades included in the human trafficking report showed that 30% of all victims identified in federal sex trafficking cases since 2000 were recruited online.

In 2020 in the U.S., 59% of online recruitment of identified victims in active cases took place on Facebook alone. The report also states that 65% of identified child sex trafficking victims recruited on social media were recruited through Facebook.

The tech giant responded to the report's findings in a statement to CBS News: "Sex trafficking and child exploitation are abhorrent and we don't allow them on Facebook. We have policies and technology to prevent these types of abuses and take down any content that violates our rules."

The report revealed that children accounted for 53% of identified victims in active criminal human trafficking cases in 2020, and women made up a large majority. Forty-four percent of victims of sex trafficking were women, and half were girls.

While the internet has been the most common place of recruitment since 2013, including 41% of active cases in 2020, the street, stores and cults were also cited by the group as targets of human traffickers.

Researchers note that trends also reflect the DOJ's methods of tracking down cases.

"These data do not reflect the prevalence of online solicitation in sex trafficking schemes beyond those federally prosecuted. To be sure, the internet is implicated in many sex trafficking situations, but the high numbers of federal prosecutions involving internet solicitation are equally if not more reflective of the strategies law enforcement use to investigate these crimes," the report states.

The majority of victims in active sex trafficking cases in 2020 were targeted with a fraudulent job offer, the report notes, followed by feigned romance. The data is based on the 602 victims identified in active sex trafficking cases for whom details of their recruitment were known.

"Traffickers often prey on existing vulnerabilities of victims," Boutros said. "A lot of times we imagine that traffickers are these large group syndicates or networks, exploiting a huge number of victims. But actually most traffickers are not operating as an organized crime enterprise. It is mostly individual traffickers that are operating individually and often exploiting a small handful of victims at a time."

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to correct a statistic on child victims. First published on June 9, 2021

Facebook Must Face Claims Linked to Sex Trafficking, Judge Says

Texas Supreme Court rejects company bid to dismiss lawsuits
 
Women claim abusers use website to lure teens to prostitution
 
Facebook Inc. must face lawsuits filed by three women claiming they were forced into prostitution as teenagers by abusers who used the social-media site to ensnare girls.

Justice James Blacklock of the Texas Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday the women can sue Facebook under a state law that allows legal action against those who benefit from sex trafficking. But he said they can’t pursue claims under federal law that Facebook failed to warn minors and take measures to block sex trafficking activity on its site.

Facebook hasn’t put effective safeguards in place to block sex traffickers because it benefits from advertising to more than 2 billion users, according to the lawsuits. The women claim the company won’t use advertising space for public service announcements regarding the dangers of sex trafficking.

Facebook appealed to the Supreme Court after it failed to get the complaints thrown out in district court and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Texas. The company argued that it is protected under Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act, which shields websites from lawsuits over what users post online.

The judge rejected that argument. “The statutory claim for knowingly or intentionally benefiting from participation in a human-trafficking venture is not barred by Section 230,” the judge ruled.

Facebook didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Blacklock sent the case back to the district court for further proceedings and suggested that the Section 230 provisions written in 1996 may be outdated and ripe for Congress to overhaul.

“Perhaps advances in technology now allow online platforms to more easily police their users’ posts,” Blacklock said. “On the other hand, perhaps subjecting online platforms to greater liability for their users’ injurious activity would reduce freedom of speech on the internet by encouraging platforms to censor ‘dangerous’ content to avoid lawsuits.”

In March, a federal court in Houston ruled that Salesforce.com must face state and federal over sex-trafficking facilitation complaints by several young women who said their pimps repeatedly sold them for sex through Backpage.com classified ads.

Bloomberg By Malathi Nayak ‎June‎ ‎25‎, ‎2021‎— With assistance by Laurel Brubaker Calkins

Teen sex trafficking victims from Houston land major court win against Facebook

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday in a Houston case that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land” and can be held liable for the conduct of pimps who use its technology to recruit and prey on children.
 
The ruling came in a trio of Houston civil actions involving teenage trafficking victims who met their abusive pimps through Facebook’s messaging functions. They sued the California-based social media juggernaut for negligence and product liability, saying that Facebook failed to warn about or attempt to prevent sex trafficking from taking place on its internet platforms. The suits also alleged that Facebook benefited from the sexual exploitation of trafficking victims.

The justices said trafficking victims can move forward with lawsuits on the grounds that Facebook violated a provision of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code passed in 2009.

Facebook lawyers argued the company was shielded from liability under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, which states that what users say or write online is not akin to a publisher conveying the same message. Essentially, they said, Facebook is immune to these types of lawsuits.

The majority wrote, “We do not understand Section 230 to ‘create a lawless no-man’s-land on the Internet’ in which states are powerless to impose liability on websites that knowingly or intentionally participate in the evil of online human trafficking.”

“Holding internet platforms accountable for the words or actions of their users is one thing, and the federal precedent uniformly dictates that Section 230 does not allow it,” the opinion said. “Holding internet platforms accountable for their own misdeeds is quite another thing. This is particularly the case for human trafficking.”
 
The justices explained that Congress recently amended Section 230 to add the possibility of civil liability for websites that violate state and federal human-trafficking laws. They said under the amended law states may protect residents from internet companies that knowingly or intentionally participate in human trafficking through their action or inaction.

The lawsuits were brought by three Houston women recruited as teens through Facebook apps and trafficked as a result of those online connections. The young women said in court filings that the social media giant cloaked traffickers with credibility and provided “a point of first contact between sex traffickers and these children” and “an unrestricted platform to stalk, exploit, recruit, groom, and extort children into the sex trade.”

One young woman who sued was 15 when a friend of a mutual friend reached out to her on Facebook in 2012. The adult who began messaging her had images on his profile of “scantily-clad young women in sexual positions” with money stuffed in their mouths and “other deeply troubling content,” the justices wrote. She confided in him and he complimented her, offering her a modeling job. After they met in person, the trafficker posted photos of her in prostitution ads on Backpage, an online platform shuttered due to its promotion of human trafficking. The young woman said she was “raped, beaten, and forced into further sex trafficking.”
 
Another plaintiff was 14 in 2017 when a man contacted her on Instagram, another Facebook property. The pimp in this instance lured her with “false promises of love and a better future.” She said the easy access to her through social media made it possible for the man to traffic her, using Instagram to advertise her as a prostitute and set up “dates,” during which she was raped numerous times. After the teen was rescued from his operation, traffickers kept using her profile to lure in other minors, according to the ruling. In this case the family says the girl’s mother reported what had happened to Facebook and the company never responded.

The third girl who sued identified herself as being 14 on Instagram in 2016. A man of about 30 whom she didn’t know sent her a friend request on Instagram. They exchanged messages for two years in what plaintiffs said was a calculated effort to “groom” her and prepare her for sex-trafficking. In March 2018, the man asked the teen to leave home and meet him. He brought the girl to a motel, photographed her and posted images in Backpage ads, according to the opinion. The johns who responded to the post raped her.
Houston Chronicle Gabrielle Banks June 26, 2021

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