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It’s generally much more subtle coercion.” “Almost never is there any kind of abduction or solely a use of physical force or locking people away. “We see minors who are in a vulnerable position - maybe they’ve run away from home, maybe they’ve been kicked out of their home - and then engage in sex acts for money in order to have food to eat and a place to stay,” said Jean Bruggeman, executive director of Freedom Network USA, an anti-trafficking group. In 2018, 1 in 7 kids who were reported as runaways to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely victims of child sex trafficking, according to UNICEF. Instead, kids who are sexually exploited are often poor, children of color, immigrants, or some combination of the three, and they’ve often been in the child welfare system or run away from home. elites performing satanic rituals on children they stole from suburban playgrounds. doesn’t look like a bunch of Hollywood and D.C. In reality, child trafficking in the U.S. QAnon instead gives folks this incredibly sensationalized ‘other’ to fear and be angry about.” “We’ve worked so hard for the last 18 years to shift the narrative and have people understand this is happening in our communities. “It’s extraordinarily frustrating,” said Lisa Goldblatt Grace, co-founder and executive director of My Life My Choice, an anti-trafficking nonprofit. And that has made life difficult for the people who actually do anti-trafficking work. The rest of the year, the hashtag tended to garner fewer than 200 posts per week.īut most of the content shared using #savethechildren was based on a Q-fueled and completely warped picture of what child trafficking looks like in this country. 15, more than 12,000 public Facebook posts used the hashtag, according to the social media tracking tool CrowdTangle.
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Over the summer, Q followers began using #savethechildren to spread the conspiracy theory, and it worked. But the underlying connective tissue of QAnon is that bad people, mainly Democrats, are trafficking children and Trump is the only one who can stop them. If you go all the way down the rabbit hole you’ll find theories about Bill Gates injecting tracking devices into every citizen, blood libel, devil worship and draining kids of a chemical compound called adrenochrome to become immortal. Devoted QAnon followers believe - to varying levels of detail - that there is a secret cabal of powerful elites who run an underground pedophilia ring, and that President Trump is currently working to bring these evildoers to justice.
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QAnon is a baseless conspiracy regardless of how deep you go, but its fixation on pedophilia is particularly unmoored. And the results could be putting kids at risk. But in promoting its radical worldview, QAnon has made life difficult for the organizations actually trying to save children. The growing online conspiracy cult has co-opted the phrase to push falsehoods about pedophiles who run the world. It’s hard to argue against a phrase like “save the children.” Which, presumably, is why QAnon uses it as a hashtag.