‘FB Banned over 700 Pages Dedicated to Expose Pedophilia. That Should Scare the Absolute S*** Out of Everyone.’ Another viral child trafficking and abuse rumor in 2020 held that Facebook placed a ban on hundreds of page dedicated to exposing pedophilia.
Are People Trying to Make the Legal Age of Consent 4 Years Old? 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.
‘How is Finding 39 Missing Children in a Double Wide Trailer in Georgia NOT the Biggest News Story in America?’ As is often the case, a seemingly huge story is not the "biggest story" because it didn't happen -- at least not in the way it's described.
Do 800,000 Children Go Missing Each Year in the United States? 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.
How COVID-19 Triggered a #SaveTheChildren Child Trafficking Panic 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.
Wayfair Child Trafficking Conspiracy Theory Commenters shared suspicions about inexplicably expensive Wayfair WFX cabinets, sparking a new conspiracy theory about human trafficking.