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While the film is purportedly based on real events involving Ballard's involvement in Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R), Ballard embellished multiple details about himself and O.U.R. [20] The accounts of the events depicted have been questioned by some researchers and reporters. In a 2020 article on Vice News, Anna Merlan states that Ballard embellished O.U.R.'s role in the rescue of a trafficked woman. [21] In a 2021 follow-up article, Merlan and Tim Marchman criticized O.U.R.'s practices, including using inexperienced donors and celebrities as part of its jump team, a lack of meaningful surveillance or identification of targets, failing to validate whether the people they intended to rescue were in fact actual trafficking victims, and conflating consensual sex work with sex trafficking. [22] A 2021 article in Slate criticized a 2014 raid conducted by O.U.R. in the Dominican Republic, saying that it was likely to have traumatized the trafficked children. Anne Gallagher, an authority on human trafficking, wrote in 2015 that O.U.R. had an "alarming lack of understanding about how sophisticated criminal trafficking networks must be approached and dismantled" and called the work of O.U.R "arrogant, unethical and illegal". [23]
Investigative journalists Lynn Packer and Damion Moore of American Crime Journal reported that Tim Ballard lied about his involvement in the case portrayed in the film and fabricated details about his child sex trafficking activities. They demonstrated that official documents connected to the story conflict with the narrative told in the film. [24]
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The whole child molesting meme, buzz words are a result of an effective Russian campaign to convince blockheads that Hillary Clinton ran a child molesting ring in a Pizza Restaurant basement that has no basement. But it caught on. All you have to know is how the right accuses virtually anyone they don't like of child molesting. They're either bots or brainwashed and really believe the most absurd shit that way. Every liberal is a child molester according to the nuts on this board... again totally absurd 99.999% of the time but to brainwash the knuckle draggers, brainwashers need a villain just like Hitler needed one. Of course some people still believe the Nazi propaganda about Jews. |
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