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For years, adherents of the pro-Trump QAnon movement and MAGA influencers in its orbit spread unhinged conspiracy theories about human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children by powerful liberal elites. Many believed that Trump was engaged in a secret war with this cabal of predators and would eventually bring …

Tim Ballard, the anti-trafficking activist who made his name with wildly exaggerated “rescues” of victims abroad, has faced a mountain of legal woes since he was forced out of Operation Underground Railroad, the organization he founded, over allegations of misconduct. But a recent ruling gives him one less sexual assault …

Angel Studios, the faith-based media company that distributed the breakout hit Sound of Freedom in 2023, is facing a lawsuit for breach of contract. It’s yet another example of creative partners claiming that the streaming and entertainment giant, which went public last fall at a valuation of $1.6 billion and …

Tim Ballard, the anti-trafficking activist whose wildly exaggerated missions abroad were the basis of the hit 2023 film Sound of Freedom, is facing a new legal action from six women who last year sued him for sexual exploitation — leading Ballard to sue them for defamation earlier this month. The …

A new, fifth lawsuit against disgraced anti-trafficking activist Tim Ballard, whose exaggerated rescue missions abroad were the inspiration for the hit film Sound of Freedom, has also taken aim at Angel Studios, the distributor of the controversial 2023 movie. It’s the first civil action targeting Ballard that simultaneously goes after …

O n an August night in 2003, a young woman who went by the name Paulina sank into the sofa of her modest, rented apartment, opened up her laptop, and began talking about sex with a man she’d recently met in a Yahoo chat group. His name was Stephen Bolen. …

When the child-trafficking drama Sound of Freedom conquered the box office this summer, ultimately taking in more than $242 million worldwide, it was touted as a triumph. Leading man Jim Caviezel, hardly seen since his CBS sci-fi series Person of Interest ended in 2016, proved that he could still command …

Since conservative audiences flocked to Sound of Freedom this summer, turning a biopic about Tim Ballard’s supposed exploits as an anti-trafficking operator into an unlikely hit, Ballard has had his heroic mythology rapidly stripped away in a series of lawsuits, formal rebukes, and dissolved relationships. But in recent days, his …

A group of women who allegedly experienced abuse while working for Operation Underground Railroad (OUR)— a nonprofit that claims to fight sex trafficking, and was behind the summer blockbuster Sound of Freedom —are speaking out via a lawyer, Suzette Rasmussen. On Thursday, the attorney released a statement from the women, …

Tim Ballard, whose purported rescues of sex-trafficking victims were fictionalized in the hit summer movie Sound of Freedom, earlier this year left the advocacy group he founded after an internal investigation of sexual misconduct claims, sources familiar with the organization have confirmed. According to Vice News, which corroborated reporting from …