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Feds take down sites that replaced prostitution and child sex trafficking portal Backpage.com

CBS News, June 19, 2020. The Backpage-to-CityXGuide succession: that Wilhan Martono, 46, registered the domain names for 1backpage.com and cityxguide.com the day after the FBI seized Backpage.com in April 2018, that he ran them as the replacement venue for the same commercial-sex advertising, that prosecutors put the enterprise's revenue at more than $21 million since 2018, and that the sites were seized and Martono charged on 28 federal counts in June 2020 - covering both res_backpage_cityxguide and the takedown behind res_cityxguide_none..

Source type
News report
Published
June 19, 2020
Research grade
S1
Used in entries
2

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Publisher
CBS News
Published
June 19, 2020
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S1
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/backpage-replacement-cityxguide-taken-down-federal-prosecutors/
What it supports
The Backpage-to-CityXGuide succession: that Wilhan Martono, 46, registered the domain names for 1backpage.com and cityxguide.com the day after the FBI seized Backpage.com in April 2018, that he ran them as the replacement venue for the same commercial-sex advertising, that prosecutors put the enterprise's revenue at more than $21 million since 2018, and that the sites were seized and Martono charged on 28 federal counts in June 2020 - covering both res_backpage_cityxguide and the takedown behind res_cityxguide_none.
Dataset id
src_cbsnews_cityxguide_seizure_2020

Research notes

  • Byline Clare Hymes. schema.org datePublished 2020-06-19T15:11:04-0400; the page displays 'June 19, 2020 / 3:11 PM EDT'.
  • The article covers the seizure and the charges only; it does not speak to whether any successor site appeared after CityXGuide, so it supports the absence claim in res_cityxguide_none only weakly.

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