The 2019 Rose Hoax: A Conscientious Fake

This is not somebody panicking because their brain got poisoned by viral media. This is someone choosing to knowingly spread a false kidnapping story. The 2019 Rose hoax was not the first sex trafficking scare to emerge from Kentucky in recent years. In late 2017, some social media users in the Louisville and Florence area in the North State claimed to have been approached or harassed in public. And the local branch of a controversial church was forced to defend its member against allegations of sex trafficking.