Attorneys general from 45 states — including Maryland and Virginia — are asking an online classified ad site to explain how it handles advertisements that the lawyers say facilitate prostitution and sex trafficking.
The attorneys general wrote in a letter to Backpage.com on Wednesday that the site’s purported efforts to curb such advertisements “have proven ineffective.”
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