traffickers use tech to hurt children. 

• Most exploited kids first met their trafficker online.¹
• Traffickers prey on large numbers of vulnerable kids on social media by exploiting their desire for connection, success and "likes"²
• The reach and ease of connection of social media allows traffickers to continuously search for and recruit multiple different victims at once online.³
• The most common apps used by traffickers and their victims are Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.⁴​

​we use tech to protect children.

• Online education specifically focused on at-risk kids using social media is key to preventing their victimization.⁵
• Using AI and image recognition technologies, backed by research-based understanding of traffickers and victims, we can identify at-risk kids on social media faster and at much larger scale than traffickers.​
• By finding at-risk kids before the traffickers do, we can help educate and inoculate them against the trafficker's recruitment tactics.⁵

 Notes: 1. Thorn. Survivor Insights The Role of Technology in Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (2018), at pages 26, 53; Kunz, et. al., SOCIAL MEDIA & SEX TRAFFICKING PROCESS from connection and recruitment, to sales (2018), at page 9. 2. Thorn at page 51; Kunz, et. al., at page 6; Polaris. On-Ramps, Intersections, and Exit Routes: A Roadmap for Systems and Industries to Prevent and Disrupt Human Trafficking (2018), at page 19. 3. Thorn at page 54; Kunz, et. al., at pages 4, 7. 4. Thorn at pages 34, 36; Kunz et. al., at pages 8, 10; Polaris at page 18. 5. Thorn at page 60; Polaris at pages 33-35.