{"id":9945,"date":"2023-05-10T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/the-lawyer-whose-sex-trafficking-case-against-instagram-could-spell-trouble-for-big-tech\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:37:41","slug":"the-lawyer-whose-sex-trafficking-case-against-instagram-could-spell-trouble-for-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/the-lawyer-whose-sex-trafficking-case-against-instagram-could-spell-trouble-for-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for big tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annie McAdams represents clients who claim Meta\u2019s products connect vulnerable people with sex buyers <\/p>\n<p>On 14 March 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anniemcadamspc.com\/\">Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer<\/a> running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman, who had endured years of sexual exploitation at the hands of a convicted trafficker. The defendant was one of the most powerful technology companies in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Contained within McAdams\u2019s federal suit was a series of allegations that Meta \u2013 the owner of Facebook and Instagram, which are used by more than 3 billion people every day \u2013 had knowingly created a breeding ground for human trafficking and was actively facilitating the buying and selling of people for sex online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/may\/10\/lawyer-sex-trafficking-case-against-instagram-could-spell-trouble-for-big-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e47865d8035ee154667fccd851863dddbf7fc397\/0_385_5687_3411\/master\/5687.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=cb041b5ca3c6f5b8ee631be1f440f1c5\" title=\"The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for big tech\" \/>Annie McAdams represents clients who claim Meta\u2019s products connect vulnerable people with sex buyers<br \/>\nOn 14 March 2022, Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman, who had endured years of sexual exploitation at the hands of a convicted trafficker. The defendant was one of the most powerful technology companies in the world.<br \/>\nContained within McAdams\u2019s federal suit was a series of allegations that Meta \u2013 the owner of Facebook and Instagram, which are used by more than 3 billion people every day \u2013 had knowingly created a breeding ground for human trafficking and was actively facilitating the buying and selling of people for sex online. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie McAdams represents clients who claim Meta\u2019s products connect vulnerable people with sex buyers On 14 March 2022, Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman, who had endured years of sexual &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/10\/the-lawyer-whose-sex-trafficking-case-against-instagram-could-spell-trouble-for-big-tech\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The lawyer whose sex trafficking case against Instagram could spell trouble for big tech<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}