President Donald Trump signed a bill on Wednesday that empowers state prosecutors to go after the owners of websites that host sex-trafficking ads and for victims to file lawsuits against those websites.
Human trafficking, also known as modern slavery, “is worse today than at any other time in history,” Trump said, emphasizing that traffickers exploit modern tools. Reports of suspected child-sex trafficking increased 846% between 2010-2015, largely due to the use of the internet, according to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
