He didn’t say it’s a publicity stunt. He said there isn’t data to support human trafficking is on the rise and that kidnapping is not always human trafficking. He’s actually correct here https://twitter.com/don_sech/status/1308633854928920576

Social media reports do not equal actual reports. People can misinterpret things. People can lie. People have a tendency to think any case of someone going missing or being kidnapped is trafficking when it actually is not

We’ve already seen cases of people deciding specific buildings are trafficking hotspots women are being lured to when that’s actually not the case.

What you see on social media doesn’t necessarily match up to what’s actually happening on the ground

I’ve also personally seen social media posts taken from US QAnon accounts that have been copy pasted to fit SA. They aren’t true in the US and they aren’t true here either

We could say one person kidnapped is one person too many and that’s absolutely true. The problem is that when you start demanding we spend time and resources on a massive problem with no data to support that it IS a massive problem you are redirecting resources from bigger+

Problems where those resources actually need to be spent.

Of course human trafficking is terrible and needs to be stopped. But the response needs to be proportional to what is actually happening.

I wrote a report on this issue (more specifically in relation to child trafficking) you can read here: https://africacheck.org/reports/fact-checking-influential-tv-presenters-claims-about-child-trafficking-in-south-africa/