How Barack Obama Led Us Into The Selfie Century

WASHINGTON — A new era in American politics was only faintly visible when The Huffington Post debuted on May 9, 2005. The changing time manifested itself in two ways. One was the incandescent smile of a freshman senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. The other was an emerging wave of social media — Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and, yes, HuffPost. Ten

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How A Social Media Post Led A Teen Into Sex Trafficking

Hope, 17, says three years ago, she was abducted by someone she met online and forced into prostitution. “It all started because I posted on a social media site that I hated my mother,” she recalls. “A woman messaged me back telling me that I could go stay with her, and we’d go partying. She showed up within the next

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