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A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook

November 19, 2018

A 16-year-old South Sudanese girl was sold off for marriage to the highest bidder on Facebook in November, raising concerns that the platform has become a “latter-day slave market.” From Vice

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