{"id":1774979,"date":"2022-12-14T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774979"},"modified":"2022-12-14T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T16:33:07","slug":"anti-sex-trafficking-activist-eliza-bleu-tells-ben-shapiro-the-cause-has-powerful-new-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-sex-trafficking-activist-eliza-bleu-tells-ben-shapiro-the-cause-has-powerful-new-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Sex Trafficking Activist Eliza Bleu Tells Ben Shapiro The Cause Has Powerful New Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanti-sex-trafficking-activist-eliza-bleu-tells-ben-shapiro-the-cause-has-powerful-new-ally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sex-trafficking-survivor-challenges-dorsey-on-heels-of-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eliza Bleu<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-ben-shapiro-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro<\/a> she has a powerful new ally in her long-running fight to purge Twitter of child predators: the new owner.<\/p>\n<p>Bleu, a sex trafficking survivor and victims advocate, has been working with Elon Musk to scrub the platform of creeps and sickos, something critics say the pre-Musk Twitter content police failed to prioritize. Shapiro hosted Bleu on his popular podcast and radio show Wednesday, where she vouched for Musk\u2019s commitment to clean up Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been in close communication with Elon Musk,\u201d she said of the self-described \u201cChief Twit,\u201d who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1594548607243411456?s=20&#038;t=bqO-NZIw2BuxHkhXqwbccw\">tweeted last month<\/a> that keeping child predators off the platform is his top priority.<\/p>\n<p>Bleu, now 41, was an advocate for victims of sex trafficking before revealing her own story in early 2020 in a dramatic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sex-trafficking-survivor-turned-advocate-coronavirus-shutdown-perfect-storm-for-abuse-heres-what-you-should-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with The Daily Wire<\/a>. She was just 18 when she moved to Los Angeles with the dream of becoming a star, but a man who promised to help her make it big instead sold her into the sex trade, and her life spiraled. She told Shapiro she got out for a time, but then fell back into drugs and prostitution before reaching out for help and turning her life around.<\/p>\n<p>Bleu\u2019s decision to tell her own story to The Daily Wire two years ago lent urgency to what she said was a particularly dangerous time in the early days of the COVID lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPre-teens and teens at home alone with their parents for days on end due to school closures will be groomed by predators online,\u201d Bleu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sex-trafficking-survivor-turned-advocate-coronavirus-shutdown-perfect-storm-for-abuse-heres-what-you-should-know\">told The Daily Wire<\/a> at the time. \u201cThey will be promised a \u2018better life\u2019 if they run away. The national average runaway is trafficked within 48 hours of leaving home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/the-ben-shapiro-show\">CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF \u201cTHE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perverts and pedophiles use Twitter to post extremely disturbing images and videos of children being abused. The criminals behind the efforts are often able to stay one step ahead of the platform\u2019s algorithms, creating new accounts in order to post the illegal content. Critics have long said Twitter wasn\u2019t doing enough to police such activity, however, and earlier this year, several major companies pulled their advertisements in protest.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, Bleu took on Twitter founder Jack Dorsey when the platform allegedly refused to take down a disturbing video of a 13-year-old boy who had been trafficked. Since Dorsey followed her, she was able to direct-message him, but she claims Twitter still didn\u2019t take down the video, which garnered more than 160,000 views and over 2,000 retweets. That was when she began to think Dorsey\u2019s Twitter wasn\u2019t sufficiently committed to the cause.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit brought on behalf of that boy was joined by another young plaintiff allegedly exploited on the platform. The more she delved into the two cases, the more Bleu began to believe Twitter was complicit in their exploitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese young men were on the brink of suicide,\u201d Bleu said. \u201cIt was being shared around their schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity data analyst Andrea Stroppa, founder of cybersecurity group Ghost Data, who helped Twitter root out accounts that posted content showing exploitation of children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/10-million-views-of-child-sexual-exploitation-material-allegedly-watched-on-old-twitter-report\">told The Daily Wire<\/a> that Musk is doing more than his predecessors to address the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found that old Twitter, in many cases related to child sexual abuse material published on the platform by malicious users, instead of suspending the whole account, just removed the tweet,\u201d Stroppa said. \u201cNow Twitter, under Elon Musk\u2019s leadership, directly suspends the accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know of has been abused by sex traffickers, call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888; text HELP to 233733; <a href=\"https:\/\/humantraffickinghotline.org\/\">HumanTraffickingHotline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliza Bleu told The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro she has a powerful new ally in her long-running fight to purge Twitter of child predators: the new owner. Bleu, a sex trafficking survivor and victims advocate, has been working with Elon Musk to scrub the platform of creeps and sickos, something critics say the pre-Musk Twitter &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1774982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5327,6589,4442,7670,8943,6202,8944,5515,5013,4425,4444,6195],"class_list":["post-1774979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-activist","tag-ally","tag-anti-sex","tag-ben","tag-bleu","tag-daily","tag-eliza","tag-powerful","tag-shapiro","tag-tells","tag-trafficking","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}