THE GREAT (FAKE) CHILD-SEX-TRAFFICKING EPIDEMIC

The Atlantic ^ | 12/9/2021 | By Kaitlyn Tiffany

[NohSpinZone]

Anxiety about the nation’s children, which is at a steady simmer in the best of times, boiled over in the summer of 2020, when the digital soldiers of QAnon occupied the otherwise innocuous hashtag #SaveTheChildren. Around the same time, major social-media platforms had started blocking overt QAnon accounts and hashtags. From their new beachhead, the digital soldiers were able to disseminate a cascade of false information about child trafficking on Instagram and Facebook: Children were being trafficked on the hospital ship USNS Comfort, then docked in New York City, and through tunnels underneath Central Park.

As outrageous as these allegations were, their timing may have made them sound less fantastical to some. They coincided with the release of popular documentaries about the real sex-trafficking crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who was arrested in July 2019 and committed suicide that August, and who was known for his wide circle of rich and famous acquaintances. (His death had set off a new slew of conspiracy theories.) In this context, the suddenly ubiquitous #SaveTheChildren posts created the illusion of an organic movement rising up to confront a massive social problem. Americans who knew little about QAnon became heavily involved, and when QAnon moved on to other concerns—a stolen election, a poisonous vaccine—these volunteers stayed devoted to the cause of opposing child sex trafficking.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Everyone is look at Joe pulling that girl.
Also notice Jill Biden hand grabbing the other girls chest.

[Drew68]

Oh, I see now, child trafficking isn't caused by perverts like Epstein; it's all in the imagination of QAnon types.

Laurene Powel Jobs (left), owner of The Atlantic with a friend (who's been a the news quite a bit lately).

[miserare]

A fine observation.