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The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated this phenomenon. During the lockdown, the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR(link is external)) Project, a team of anthropologists and heritage experts specializing in digital networks for art trafficking, observed a resurgence in the sale of...
Terrorists use Lebanon as the main exit point for trafficking in looted Syrian antiquities, while the buyers are spread all over the world, Amr al-Azm, co-director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project, told Sputnik in an interview.https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/lebanon-s...
The history of Facebook is marked by a slew of accusations thrown against them by everyone from free-speech advocates to wildlife activists and, so far, they have managed to elude almost every one of them with slippery, noncommittal remarks, hiding underneath vague policies and loopholes such as Section 230 of the Comm...
I gruppi Facebook sono una delle piattaforme per far incontrare domanda e offerta. La network analysis e lo studio delle trattative ha messo in evidenza il modus operandi di mediatori legati all’ISIS e Al Qaeda.https://oggiscienza.it/2019/08/29/social-network-facilitatori-traffico-opere-arte-siria/
The Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project has published a critical report on West Asian antiquities trafficking taking place more or less out in the open on Facebook.https://hyperallergic.com/how-social-media-is-allowing-for-illegal-antiquities-trafficking/
Networks of criminals are trading priceless Middle Eastern antiquities—from entire Roman mosaics to full Pharaonic coffins—on Facebook, and there are no rules to stop them. https://qz.com/1657192/terrorists-are-trafficking-antiquities-with-impunity-on-facebook
The Alliance to Counter Crime Online and the ATHAR Project are warning House lawmakers that Facebook “has also become a repository for massive online criminal markets and terrorist groups,” according to a letter they submitted as the House holds a counterterrorism hearing.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/p...
Ancient relics, antiquities and treasures from the Middle East are being looted and trafficked on Facebook, according to a new report by the ATHAR Project. It found extremist groups and criminal organizations are selling pieces of history like mosaics, statues and historical architecture online. The project’s co-direct...
A team of researchers with the ATHAR Project has been monitoring 95 Facebook groups whose members include looters, antiquities sellers and buyers.https://www.livescience.com/65641-yemen-blood-antiquities-investigation.html