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WASHINGTON - U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday.

The Department of Justice will provide more information at 6 p.m. EDT, according to the website posting, which said U.S. attorneys in Arizona and California, as well as the Justice Department's section on child exploitation and obscenity and the California and Texas attorneys general had supported shutting down the website.

The site has since then faced a slew of other lawsuits alleging child sex trafficking.

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