Websites wrongly claim man arrested on child sex charges was a Clinton campaign official
A new outrage is bubbling on social media, this time over the arrest of a 22-year-old man on charges of attempting to se
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A new outrage is bubbling on social media, this time over the arrest of a 22-year-old man on charges of attempting to sexually exploit a child, enticing a child to engage in sexual activity and possessing child pornography.
The charges have made news for several outlets — including
the Washington Post — because the perpetrator was a well-known activist working to prevent sexual violence. Before his arrest, Joel Davis was the founding executive director of the international organization
Youth to End Sexual Violence and a member of the
International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict, an international group of human rights experts.
But some conservative websites have tried to attach another, unsubstantiated label to Davis, writing that he worked as a "campaign official" for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
We found no evidence to support this claim.