Salesforce Inc. must face a lawsuit from sex trafficking victims in Texas who allege the tech giant facilitated trafficking by providing the now-defunct online ads forum Backpage.com with customer relationship software.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld a trial court ruling which found the San Francisco-based software company can’t wield the tech industry’s powerful internet immunity law to block the suit.
The victims, who sued Salesforce in 2020 in Texas federal court after being sex trafficked through Backpage ads, aren’t attempting to hold the company liable for its editorial decision-making, a three-judge panel for ...
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