Trafficking, and trafficking panics

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Dara, Jane, and Matt on Wayfair, massage parlors, and reality. Resources: "The modeling industry is filled with exploitation—this labor activist is fighting back" by Sara Ziff, Fast Company "American Airlines Reportedly Accused a Black Social Worker of Kidnapping the White Child In Her Care. Now She's Suing." by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason "Sen. Josh Hawley Says He 'Took on an Asian Trafficking Ring' and 'Freed a Dozen Women in Sex Slavery.' That's Not True." by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason "Trump has turned the war on trafficking into a war on immigrants" by Melissa Gira Grant & Debbie Nathan, The Appeal "ICE Agents Fight Sex Trafficking by Paying Potential Victims for Hand Jobs" Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason "'White slavery': the origins of the anti-trafficking movement" by Laura Lammasniemi, Open Democracy "Baltimore Mayor Says Men in White Vans Are Snatching Young Girls for Sex Trafficking" Lenore Skenazy, Reason "The allure of child trafficking conspiracy theories" Ben Sixsmith, Spectator "The Making of “The Trafcking Problem”" by Ine Vanwesenbeeck "American Fringes: How the extremes define our society" by Nick Fouriezos "The bogus claim that 300,000 U.S. children are ‘at risk’ of sexual exploitation" by Glenn Kessler, WaPo Polaris Statement on Wayfair Sex Trafficking Claims White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jeff, you'll be glad to know I'm coming back to DC on Friday.
0:04.6	Good news for me, bad news for you, I'm sure.
0:08.8	Yep.
0:09.8	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:26.7	I'm Matthew Glacias.
0:27.7	I'm here with Jane Kostin with ProPublica's Darrylind.
0:31.3	And so today we wanted to sort of take a break from the news.
0:35.9	We got a question in the Facebook group about sex trafficking, which had come up because
0:41.7	of this, I guess we would call it a conspiracy theory about the furniture company, Wayfair.
0:46.9	Is that right, Jane?
0:48.4	Wayfair's a, I only do stories with a coastal main angle.
0:51.6	And Wayfair's a big employer here in the Bangor area, but also maybe the center of a
0:56.7	sex trafficking ring.
0:58.2	So here's what happened.
0:59.6	And because I think that this gets into the combination of things that some things that
1:04.4	are not true, some things that are slightly true, and some things that are, it's complicated.
1:10.6	So here's what happened in July of this year, as in this month, a bunch of people on social
1:16.1	media started noticing that Wayfair, the furniture store with an extremely irritating jingle,
1:21.8	was advertising utility closets and a number of other items for extraordinarily high prices.
1:28.9	For instance, a set of pillows and shower curtains that were listed for $9,999.
1:36.6	And for instance, a utility closet that was priced at more than $10,000.
1:40.4	And so the conclusion to which social media users went to is immediately, and I'll quote
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