People pass by the Salesforce Tower and Salesforce.com offices in New York City, U.S., March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Fifty women who describe themselves as survivors of sex trafficking on the now-defunct Backpage.com web portal accuse Salesforce.com Inc of profiting off each ad.
The women sued Salesforce March 26 in San Francisco state court, claiming billionaire Marc Benioff’s company knowingly supported Backpage by providing customised database tools to market and remarket prostitutes to “pimps, johns and traffickers who had been underusing its trafficking services”.
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