Abstract

Human trafficking has migrated onto the web, benefiting from scale, speed, and fragmentation. Labor and sex trafficking constitute its two most egregious forms, but the latter has especially exploited the reach of the web (). Such advertisements number in the hundreds of millions in North America alone. Making matters even worse, advertisements by sex-workers, many coerced, are dispersed across thousands of websites rather than a centralized hub, frustrating timely efforts to find trafficking victims and hold their perpetrators accountable.

Date

2026

Authors

Mayank Kejriwal

Journal

Science

Volume

391

Issue

6785

Pages

567-567

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science