Facebook lets you do a lot of things, catch up with old friends, follow brands to get announcements, buy and sell new/used items, and so on. However a woman in Texas has recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook in which she alleges that the social network “enabled” human trafficking.

The woman claims that when she was 15, she was friended by a Facebook user who posed as a “friend”, who later turned out to be a pimp who beat her and raped her and then forced her into sex trafficking. He then posted photos of the woman on Backpage.com (who was also named as defendants in the case).

The lawsuit is basically claiming that Facebook did not do enough to verify the user’s identity, and that Facebook did not warn users that potential sex traffickers were operating on its website. Backpage.com has since been shut down earlier this year where authorities believed that it was used to facilitate sex trafficking.

Facebook has since released a statement to Engadget which reads, “Human trafficking is abhorrent and is not allowed on Facebook. We use technology to thwart this kind of abuse and we encourage people to use the reporting links found across our site so that our team of experts can review the content swiftly. Facebook also works closely with anti-trafficking organization and other technology companies, and we report all apparent instances of child sexual exploitation to NCMEC.”

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