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Agency announcements or program documentation show a survivor compensation fund was established using forfeited assets and describe its scope and eligibility.
Evidence from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office for Victims of Crime shows that, on July 31, 2025, DOJ launched the Backpage Remission Program to compensate individuals who were sex trafficked through advertisements hosted on Backpage.com and CityXGuide.com. The program is explicitly described as compensating victims whose trafficking was facilitated through online ads and is funded by assets forfeited from Backpage and CityXGuide. This matches the description of a fund for sex trafficking survivors exploited through online advertisements to seek compensation from forfeited assets. Therefore, the statement is rated True because an administration-led federal program fitting this description was in fact created and funded with forfeited assets from online advertisement platforms used in sex trafficking.