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Backpage. Backpage.com was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./. New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [ 1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services.
A former executive and two operations managers for classified site Backpage.com worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly ...
The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
Publisher/Journalist. Known for. Chairman/CEO of Village Voice Media (VVM) James Anthony Larkin (June 16, 1949 – July 31, 2023) was an American publisher and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona, known for his influence in the alternative newspaper industry. He was largely responsible, along with business partner Michael Lacey, for his work with ...
In 2016, Harris announced the arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer on felony charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping. The warrant alleged that 99 percent of Backpage's revenue was directly attributable to prostitution-related ads, many of which involved victims of sex trafficking, including children under the age of ...
The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
Michael G. Lacey (born July 30, 1948) is an Arizona-based journalist, editor, publisher and First Amendment advocate. He is the founder and former executive editor of the Phoenix New Times, which he and his business partner, publisher Jim Larkin, expanded into a nationwide chain of 17 alternative weeklies, known as Village Voice Media (VVM). [1]
Federal agents shut down the classifieds website backpage.com in an effort to purge the internet of sites that enable illegal sex work and sex trafficking.