ATHAR

The smugglers, who include terrorist organizations, use Facebook to coordinate their efforts and crowdsource information.

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04 May 2020

The smugglers, who include terrorist organizations, use Facebook to coordinate their efforts and crowdsource information.

A new report from Katie Paul, co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project, highlights these nefarious acts, while the ATHAR twitter feed calls on Facebook to account for their reckless online practices, which facilitate such sales.

https://aleteia.org/2020/05/04/looters-take-advantage-of-world-isolation-to-plunder-holy-land-archaeological-sites/