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VILLAGE VOICE

MEDIA & ETHICS
Meghann Cuniff is in bed with a child sex trafficking advocate.
EQUALITY & HUMAN RIGHTS
Traffickers would not be so successful were it not for their enablers.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
The story reads like a sordid crime novel, with Ortega as willing accomplice, motivated by greed and devoid of human decency. It might be entertaining, were it not for the real-life victims of his complacency and collusion—children sold on Backpage as sex slaves, victims of sexual violence, physical and psychological abuse, and murder—the details of which are well-documented.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Ortega was the chief editor of the Village Voice when it harbored Backpage.com, which, according to numerous media reports, was the nation’s leading facilitator for the sale of children for sex. Its three owners have been under U.S. Senate Subcommittee investigation.