Episode 337: The (Hollow) Sound of Freedom
James and I both went to see the recent box office hit, The Sound of Freedom. I liked it. James didn’t. But we both were appalled at what appear to be seriously distorted claims made in the film about human trafficking.
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Topic of the Week Human trafficking defined https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/
World data on human trafficking (p. 78)
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023.pdf
US data on human trafficking
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022
Fraction of children in human trafficking (p. 48)
https://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf
Drug trafficking statistics
https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/drug-trafficking
Critique of Sound of Freedom
The claimed stats at the end of Sound of Freedom
https://www.looper.com/1343442/sound-of-freedom-ending-explained/
Quick Hits
AI and telemarketers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457
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