You Can Find an Organ Donor on Social Media

October 12, 2015

(Popular Science) – Social media sites like Facebook are known for connecting people around the world as never before. They are also facilitating a somewhat illegal practice of buying and selling organs, according to an investigation from Al Jazeera. Though presumably all sorts of organs are available on the black market, kidneys are the most in demand. Of the approximately 122,000 people on the U.S. transplant list, about 101,000 of them—more than 80 percent—are waiting for kidneys.