Instagram Connects Woman with Predator who Sex Trafficked Her for a Year
K.B. met a complete stranger on Instagram who began sending her direct messages and posting comments on her Instagram page. The statements he posted consisted of commonly-known grooming tactics, but Instagram failed monitor these messages, even though they had the technology to do so.
K.B.’s trafficker suggested meeting up in person, and within two days of their first meeting, he began to sex traffic K.B. on Instagram. She was promised the safety of a relationship, a lavish lifestyle, and a family, but instead was met with sexual abuse, threats of being left on the street, and threats of violence if she did not fully participate in her trafficker’s venture.
The accounts used to sex traffic and advertise K.B. were created under fake names, and still exist on the platform to this day. Even after K.B.’s direct trafficker was convicted and sentenced to 40 years, Instagram still has not removed the trafficker’s Instagram account.
When K.B. sued the platform for its faulty product features that contributed to her trafficking, the case was dismissed. Section 230 of the Communcations Decency Act comes to Big Tech’s rescue once again.
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