“There’s no way to combat that with press,” he said. “There’s no channel for the message to get distributed because [teenagers] are not reading the legacy news.” | How a viral teen app became the center of a sex trafficking hoax

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How a viral teen app became the center of a sex trafficking hoax

The app quickly took off with teens, until an unfounded rumor, repeated by police and TV, linked it to sex trafficking.

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