The Links x CSW Guide to Sex Trafficking Myths

Today’s right-wing campaign against “groomers” is America’s latest moral panic.

After years of propaganda and misleading statistics, child sex trafficking conspiracies have become a gateway to right-wing extremism.

The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.

The conspiracy group’s goal was to convince people the world is run by pedophiles, and, well, mission accomplished.

An Internet mob wanted to rescue a 13-year-old girl. Instead, they terrified her, derailed real trafficking investigations and incited ‘save the children’ violence.

From pastel QAnon to celebrity pregnancy truthers, host Cristen Conger (Unladylike) unravels the conspiracy theory webs woven by and about women. If you’ve ever wondered where tradwives came from, why Taylor Swift can’t shake off psyops or who made Beyonce’s Illuminati mess, get out your red string and follow along. Conspiracy, She Wrote starts August 8. New episodes each Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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QAnon, the conspiracy theory claiming that a cabal of global elites is trafficking children, has taken off among parents since Covid-19.

Original Premiere Date November 25th 2019Mike tells Sarah how NGOs, activists and George W. Bush resurrected the 'stranger danger' panic for the modern era. ...

Dispatches from a moral panic

The women accusing Operation Underground Railroad founder Tim Ballard of sexual assault and rape have filed a new lawsuit in federal court accusing Ballard of manipulating and coercing them into sex trafficking.

Ballard, an anti-sex trafficking activist, said in a statement that “the latest tabloid-driven sexual allegations are false.”

A female operator who worked with the controversial anti-trafficking group knew someone was going to get seriously hurt. She just didn't expect that it would be her.

Operation Underground Railroad claims to save child sex slaves. People on the ground describe disturbingly amateurish operations that could endanger those they're meant to help.

Backed by Donald Trump, Operation Underground Railroad has flourished in the age of QAnon. But not all of its stories hold up to scrutiny.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no more dangerous place for a young white woman than the ice cream parlor.

In the early 1830s, the Hôtel-Dieu nunnery in Montreal was reportedly the site of illicit sex and mass murder. Lecherous priests from a nearby seminary

“Ten Thousand Bigamists in New York”: The Criminalization of Jewish Immigrants Using White Slavery Panics By Mia Brett The late 19th century and early 20th century saw a huge influx of Jewish immigrants settling in New York City. Eastern European Yiddish speaking immigrants fled the Pale Settlem

[epq-quote align="align-left"]“From the early twentieth to the early twenty-first century, narratives of sex trafficking have proven to be extremely effective and durable vehicles for racist and anti-immigrant discourse.”[/epq-quote] Current concerns...

Every January, tens of thousands of Christian college students from all over the world attend the conference Passion, where they sing, pray, and hear...

Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP prosecutor who recently lost re-election.

In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria, of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children