The front page of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication is where major or headline news stories appear. It teases readers what else might be inside and is considered the “front matter”. The term front-page can also refer to a story that makes the front page but isn’t necessarily of major importance.
FrontPage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and Web site management tool created by Microsoft that was included in the company’s Microsoft Office suite of software until 2006. It was used to create, edit, and publish Web pages and Web sites. It was designed to hide the complexities of writing HTML code from users and allow them to create Web pages with a visual interface. FrontPage also had a server-side plugin called FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE) that allowed the application to communicate with and publish to web servers. It was a proprietary technology and experienced several security problems throughout its life.
In a 2014 lawsuit, three anonymous Jane Does who were sex trafficked as minors sued Backpage in federal court for facilitating sex trafficking by allowing pedophiles to post ads for them. The lawsuit alleged that Backpage substantially changed the content of an ad for Jane Doe 3 to suggest she was an adult, thus losing its protection under the Communications Decency Act’s Section 230. The suit was dismissed in 2017. Backpage has denied all allegations of sex trafficking, arguing that it is simply exercising its traditional publisher functions with regard to third-party content and thus enjoys immunity under the CDA.
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