Expert Take: Questions to Ask About Human Trafficking ‘Facts’ & Statistics

To combat misinformation, SWAN has collaborated with qualified experts to discuss a heavily sensationalized and politicized topic in Canada — human trafficking.

In this resource, Drs O’Doherty and Millar — two researchers that are directly engaged with data collection and analysis in the area of human trafficking in Canada — explain some of the key questions that journalists should be exploring with their sources when reporting on human trafficking.

See here for an illustration of how data and statistics can be misinterpreted, misrepresented and/or manipulated.