Social media specialist lawyer Yair Cohen told Sky’s national correspondent Tom Parmenter that the government’s response to people trafficking has been “pretty poor” and it has “very poor presence on social media”.
“It is very easy to blame social media platforms and I agree, they have got a role to play here, however at the same time they are just a venue and they deal with many millions of posts,” he said.
He urged the government to use social media and advertising to tell people about the danger of people trafficking, and also to track down the criminals posting their own adverts by “following the money”.
Mr Cohen said adverts need to be paid for so the government could “very easily” find out who is paying for them. Read full article https://uk.news.yahoo.com/despicable-people-smugglers-targeting-migrants-144900820.html