Kamala Harris had a lot to do with it. https://reason.com/video/2020/08/20/kamala-harris-dishonest-campaign-to-destroy-backpage-com/ https://reason.com/video/2

Kamala Harris had a lot to do with it. https://reason.com/video/2020/08/20/kamala-harris-dishonest-campaign-to-destroy-backpage-com/ https://reason.com/video/2020/08/20/kamala-harris-dishonest-... "She would go on to spread misinformation about the site and its co-founders, Michael Lacey and James Larkin, and she co-filed criminal charges that were quickly dismissed but succeeded at garnering headlines and photo ops that raised her political profile. In reality, Backpage.com had become a powerful tool for law enforcement to help catch sex traffickers because of the cooperation and commitment of the site's founders to that cause, whom Harris and many other states' attorneys general had painted as villains."