Inside A Mysterious Anti-Sex Trafficking Group

<p>The anti-child sex trafficking group Operation Underground Railroad has become increasingly popular in the age of QAnon, and has been buoyed in part by President Trump. But not all of the stories OUR tells its donors hold up to scrutiny, and some of its so-called "missions" to save women and children from sex trafficking have been described by insiders as amateurish at best. Reporters <a href="https://twitter.com/timmarchman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tim Marchman</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/annamerlan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anna Merlan</a> of<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/section/tech" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> VICE’s Motherboard</a> go deep on their months-long investigation into this popular, shadowy group.&nbsp;</p><br><p>This episode was produced by Julia Nutter and Sam Eagan.</p><br><p>Illustration by Hunter French.</p><br><p>VICE News Reports is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/adrs?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arielle Duhaime-Ross</a> and produced by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell, Sophie Kazis, Jen Kinney, Janice Llamoca, Julia Nutter, and Sayre Quevedo. Our senior producers are Ashley Cleek and Adizah Eghan. Our associate producers are Steph Brown, Sam Eagan, and Adreanna Rodriguez. Sound design and music composition by Steve Bone, Pran Bandi and Kyle Murdock. Our intern is Leily Rezvani.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our executive producer and VP of Vice Audio is Kate Osborn. Janet Lee is Senior Production Manager for VICE Audio.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>