https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg en-us 2023-05-10 16:47:37 UTC 2023-05-18 14:17:04 UTC hello@padlet.com jbajkowski4039 https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593411557      The mysterious theories of Wayfair trafficking kids began in the summer of 2020 when a girl disappeared and was nowhere to be found. She ended up running away from her own home making her parents really worried and terrified. Her disappearance ended up going viral, along with dozens of other kids her age disappearing randomly. There was an attached screenshot with articles of a Wayfair pillow being priced at $10,000. This led to people believing that Wayfair was up to some suspicious things. It ended up going viral on social media, including twitter with 1.2 million tweets about this topic. But after an investigation was done by human trafficking investigators at the Department of Homeland Security, these trafficking claims ended up being false. Shortly after a missing persons report was filed, the 13 year old girl named Samara Duplessis was found.]]> 2023-05-16 16:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593411557 jbajkowski4039 https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593443440       The QAnon community began to claim that Wayfair is running a sex trafficking scandal. They believed that overpriced objects being put up for sale could be used as a disguise to cover up children being sold for sex work. This article written by BBC in July of 2020 claims that these assumptions were not real. But there was some good evidence to this theory that made it pretty believable. For example, a Wayfair user was scrolling and found a very overpriced cabinet that had a girl’s name in the name of the cabinet and description. This is what started this whole theory in the first place. These items were placed at an outrageous price then had the same name as missing girls from the U.S. But Wayfair responded to this topic after it went viral on many news sourced and the most on social media. Wayfair claimed that this they do not traffic kids and they use those kinds of names as an algorithm to organize products. And the overly priced cabinets were said to be large in size, hence the price being set that high.  ]]> 2023-05-16 17:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593443440 jbajkowski4039 https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593461379 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53416247

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/wayfair-qanon-sex-trafficking-conspiracy/


After reading many articles on this Wayfair theory, these two articles ended up being the most credible with the most information. They are both very similar, but have a different way of explaining everything. The article from the Washington Post starts off by explaining how a 13 year old girl, along with many others, disappeared mysteriously and then went viral after people started theorizing that an outrageously high priced pillow was posted to essentially cover up a sex trafficking operation. This article mainly talks about how this theory first arose from the girl going missing, while the other article from BBC talks about many reasons why this theory became believable. The BBC article also starts off by talking about an overpriced cabinet set at $10,000. There wasn’t only one thing set at a high price, but many items were then discovered with a similar high price. BBC talks about how people realized that the names of these cabinets or products were named after the same victims that went missing. But Wayfair denied this and said that this was a way to organize their products. Later on people began copying and pasting the serial numbers or SKU’s of the highly priced items into a major Russian search engine and getting many search results of pictures of younger women and girls. This claim ended up being false since it ended up being a glitch in their system. In the end, both of these articles find out that the Wayfair sex trafficking theories were false claims, but seemed very believable at first. ]]> 2023-05-16 17:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2593461379 jbajkowski4039 https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2596323670   This article from USA Today summarizes how the Wayfair sex trafficking theory is a myth. The message in this article can be understood well. It mainly portrays how and why this theory is false. This article that USA Today wrote shows credible information since it reflects similar thoughts and ideas about why this theory is false to other trusted sources, like BBC or the Washington Post. This article shows many perspectives on how Wayfair responds to this claim and also reveals credible information to why this information was believed to be factual. This post was written in order to inform people about this misinformation being spread throughout social media.]]> 2023-05-18 14:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2596323670 jbajkowski4039 https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2596335168 This article was written by the Nieman Storyboard. Personally, this is a news source that I have not heard of. After reading this article, it turned out to give out credible information about this theory that makes the reader believe this information is factual. This article was written in order to bring awareness to this Wayfair scandal. However, it does not talk about this being false. You can tell that the writer of this article leans more on the side of believing that this theory is true. This article also reflects information from the Washington Post article about the same theory. It brings up similar, if not, the same type of information as the Washington Post publishers did just in different words. You could say that this source is credible since they also bring up information that has been talked about in other trusted sources. ]]> 2023-05-18 14:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jbajkowski4039/8ihucv20o75k4yjg/wish/2596335168