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The black market for looted goods is flourishing on Facebook. While the company banned the sale of historical artifacts in June, many of the posts are in Arabic, and Facebook lacks the expertise to properly enforce its new policy.https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/11/25/21664951/facebook-ban-stolen-artifacts-ai...
From ancient mosaics to world-famous canvasses — the trafficking of cultural treasures has gathered pace during the coronavirus pandemic with criminals increasingly conducting the trade online.https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=3_cc-session_b33b9790-88a8-494a-bf02-d162627ba426
Auction sites and social networks have, in the last few years, become hubs for the illicit trafficking of cultural goods. Though Facebook recently banned the trade in antiquities on its platform, much remains to be done to curb this relatively recent marketplace, which offers traffickers a global showcase.https://couri...
Half a century after its adoption, the UNESCO 1970 Convention against the illicit trafficking of cultural property is still a major instrument to stem this scourge.https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/50-years-fight-against-illicit-trafficking-cultural-goods
Two New York antiquities dealers were arrested for lying for years about the origins of the items they were selling, defrauding this way buyers and brokers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.https://www.occrp.org/en/news/nyc-antiquities-dealers-busted-for-falsifying-provenance?
In a video shared in a Facebook group, a narrator speaking Syrian-accented Arabic describes an elaborate, Roman-era mosaic depicting mythological figures and animals. The colored glass and stone in the mosaic are still vivid some 2,000 years after it was created.https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/896180883/facebook-has-mov...
Is Facebook doing enough to stop the trade in looted antiquities? Facebook has announced new rules to crack down on that aggressive trade. As we’re about to hear, some people use the social media site to sell ancient artifacts that they haven’t even dug up yet.https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896088032/facebook-moves-to-...
At the height of Covid-19, online shopping increased by some 129 per cent. From the latest pair of Nikes to a bulk lot of Tunnock’s wafers, it seems that in 2020 any whim can be satisfied in a matter of clicks. Unfortunately, the ability to purchase whatever we want extends to the things we should not be able to – incl...
On June 23rd, Facebook announced a policy change to finally include “historic artifacts” as banned on its platforms, after exposés by numerous media outlets and tireless work by ACCO experts Katie Paul and Amr Al-Azm at The ATHAR Project.https://medium.com/alliance-to-counter-crime-online/mummy-dearest-321fd3a0b297