Fact-Checking Myths About Sex Trafficking

As I have written about elsewhere, there are a lot of journalists who have said really good things about the myths of widespread sex trafficking. But this is a quick list of links to a pretty indisputable source: the fact-checker at the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler. These links are usually the first place I send people who still believe in those myths.

Loretta Lynch’s false claim on sex trafficking arrests

Are there hundreds of thousands of sex-trafficked runaways in the United States?

The Four-Pinocchio claim that ‘on average, girls first become victims of sex trafficking at 13 years old

The fishy claim that ‘100,000 children’ in the United States are in the sex trade

The bogus claim that 300,000 U.S. children are ‘at risk’ of sexual exploitation

 The biggest Pinocchios of 2015

The false claim that human trafficking is a ‘$9.5 billion business’ in the United States

Why you should be wary of statistics on ‘modern slavery’ and ‘trafficking’