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Backpage.com accused of enabling sex trafficking

One of the world's largest classified ad websites is being accused of knowingly facilitating prostitution and child sex-trafficking. Backpage.com shutdown the "adult" section of its website this week after the release of a blistering Senate report that alleges it edited adult ads "to conceal the true nature of the underlying transaction." Jan Crawford reports.
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