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.
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.
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.
Commenters shared suspicions about inexplicably expensive Wayfair WFX cabinets, sparking a new conspiracy theory about human trafficking.
