Another viral child trafficking and abuse rumor in 2020 held that Facebook placed a ban on hundreds of page dedicated to exposing pedophilia.
A very popular Facebook post claims that unnamed “people” are trying to “make the legal age of consent four years old,” but they can’t buy alcohol or tobacco until they’re 21.
A Facebook Live user was very shocked that LOL Surprise! dolls change color in cold water (a major selling point described right in the name.)
Dubious and dated stats about missing children spread in August 2020, among them that 2,000 children go missing in the United States every day.
A surge of interest in child trafficking and the restricted #savethechildren hashtag isn’t organic — it was a subset of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in the summer of 2020.
