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MEDIA ADVISORY: Tony Ortega’s Name Is on Everyone’s List Around the Backpage Sex Trafficking Trial

While Ortega has not been indicted in the Backpage scandal currently playing out in federal court, he has gathered a fair share of attention for his role promoting the sex trafficking website.

MEDIA WATCH

IAC, Your Subsidiary Hired a Sex Trafficking Advocate to Write Anti-Religious Bigotry

The Daily Beast hired Backpage “attack dog” Tony Ortega to write anti-Scientology hate speech. STAND responds.

Mercury News Shockingly Supports Child Sex Trafficking Via Discredited Source

They do so without qualification or explanation. No disclaimer. No concern for the families of children that were trafficked because of Tony Ortega.

Tony Ortega’s Associates Are on Trial for Sex Trafficking. Where Is He?

“The people I work for were smart enough to start Backpage.com.” —Tony Ortega

The Sun’s Resident Bigot, Grant Rollings, Gets an English Lesson

We of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to English are writing you to protest your misuse of the word “journalist.”

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Tony Ortega—The Troll and His Prison of 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.

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