Hashtag Trending, June 11, 2021 – Facebook’s Sex Trafficking Underbelly; Antitrust bills could …

The report, which was contained within the groups 2020 Federal Human Trafficking Report, details that 59% of all cases occured on Facebook alone, while 65% of all child sex trafficking victims recruited through social media were on Facebook.

Other changes that could be coming include measures that make it harder to complete large mergers, as well as other anti-monopoly and antitrust reforms. It’s unclear at the moment whether Republicans on the other side of the aisle would support these bills, though several have been on record as aiming to reign in Big Tech according to the article from CNBC.

And finally, Content Delivery Network Fastly, the company behind Tuesday’s major internet outage, released a blog post explaining the cause behind the major outage that took out several major websites.

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