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Cultural property crimes, such as the theft and illegal exportation of paintings, ancient coins or other objects linked to a culture’s heritage, have been on the rise worldwide since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, Interpol said in a report published last week.https://www.occrp.org/en/news/interpol-cultural-propert...
ARIADNEplus is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Programme.https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/COVID-19_impact-archaeology-and-cultural-heritage_29Oct2021.pdf
Le commerce illicite des biens culturels occupe le troisième rang des activités criminelles internationales, après le trafic d’armes et de stupéfiants. Il génère des milliards de dollars de revenus illicites et prive des pays d’une partie de leur histoire.https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1274672/le-pillage-des-ant...
Historical artifacts immortalize certain events, circumstances and civilizations. Trade and colonization paved the way for transferring artifacts from one place to another.https://www.artshelp.com/looted-artifacts-motivations-and-technologys-role/
Katie Paul and the Tech Transparency Project use ethnographic research to find and expose extremists on social media.https://www.fastcompany.com/90651705/most-creative-people-2021-katie-paul
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the theft and trafficking of antiquities and historical manuscripts, eroding our collective memory and ability to share it with future generations.https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/7/30/how-can-we-end-antiquities-trafficking
Experts on social media, crime, and technology will participate in a major U.S. whistleblower conference discussing blowing the whistle on social media companies and social media whistleblower protections.https://www.whistleblowers.org/news/social-media-panel-of-whistleblowers-and-experts-to-discuss-holding-facebook-so...
Across Syria’s war-ravaged towns and cities, looters are trafficking the country’s priceless antiquities to the highest bidder. At the same time, two unlikely spymasters are doing their best to hold the criminals to account. Amr Al-Azm and Katie A. Paul, both US-based academics, are taking on ISIS militants, a hostile...
Facebook’s formal mission statement is to “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” In Facebook’s latest annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the word community appears 22 times.https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/07/08/facebook-community-mar...