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Take a moment and support this merry band of idealists. Fighting to save the #elephants. @_CINTOC @StopFraud chuffed.org/project/save-ele… via @Chuffed xitter.cf/wired/status/100398448…
On Facebook, wildlife traffickers can easily connect with buyers across the world, fast-tracking illegal, unregulated deals. But one team of whistleblowers hopes it can cut off the illicit trade where it lives—on social media wired.trib.al/310PJ7Y
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#DYK that illegal logging & related international trade are the 3rd largest crime in the world?
At today's @FSCDems hearing, @Ambientalist will highlight how criminal networks made up of public officials & private companies launder illegally felled timber with impunity.
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BREAKING NEWS
ACCO activists @LadyFreethinker are suing #youtube over animal abuse videos. Some of these videos have been on the platform for years and viewed hundreds of thousands of times, despite violating YouTube's own Community Standards. nytimes.com/2021/10/19/techn…
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First off, kudos to the #FB employee coming forward with information. Investors & advertisers like @Unilever @disney ought to know. Regulators like @FTC, @SEC_Enforcement ought to do something. We have been WARNING them FOR YEARS. @jason_kint @moonalice 2/
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Incredible leak today by @newley @JeffHorwitz @WSJ: #FB employees have been flagging - and mostly get ignored - for YEARS about criminal content on #Facebook and #Instagram. @counteringcrime has been reporting this for YEARS so I have a lot to say 🧵
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Thousands of Afghans need to be evacuated. A small group of #Americans is working to charter planes. More 💰 is needed. Please donate if you can. gofundme.com/f/GlobalAfghanE…
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Sources telling me that US embassy accidentally invited 50k Afghans to come to #KabulAiport even tho they can barely process 5k. And #Biden promised they would move 8k a day but currently that’s not feasible. @bsarwary @meekwire @billroggio @LongWarJournal
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I spoke to @npr this morning about how how the #taliban make their money. @Go24_Ortega @TaskForce_18 @ofchus @bsarwary @cintoc npr.org/2021/08/19/102917402…
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Fighting transnational organised crime requires transnational cooperation. Here some insights on one of the most recent & largest operations in the #WesternBalkans: @INTERPOL_HQ-led Operation Theseus.
LAST CHANCES to register to #blackseandbalkans event ➡️bit.ly/BSBP_tw
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If you didn't get the chance to join our panel on Fixing Section 230 with @daniellecitron, @ddayen, Neil Fried, @janschakowsky and @boblatta, you can still watch the livestream here. youtube.com/watch?v=YrWFEtaL…
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Great to see commitments to close illegal markets for wildlife products in this communiqué from G7 ministers. Important opportunity for synergy with G7 proposals to address online harms & end #IWT hosted by online platforms like #Facebook @MPGeorgeEustice @OliverDowden.
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In ACCO Executive Director @GretchenSPeters' testimony at the House, she outlined a number of steps Congress could take to stop online wildlife trafficking, including establishing a whistleblower program. whistleblowersblog.org/2021/…
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On #EarthDay, it's time that Facebook changes its policies towards the planet.
ACCO is leading the campaign to pressure Big Tech to clean up their act.
Take action: paypal.com/donate?hosted_but…
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Reporting this thoroughly convinced me that self-regulation does not, cannot work. Facebook has only ever moved on issues because or in anticipation of external regulation. If we have any hope of fixing FB's problems, we can no longer afford to wait for it to do so itself.
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The founder of @Facebook Group trading #agarwood wrote a recent post as Admin:
1) acknowledging that the trade in the Philippines is illegal
2) encouraging members to find "possible ways...without trouble"
3) asking for sales to his Middle East-based company
4) offering advice
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Tomorrow, Friday 1/29 at 10AM PST / 1PM EST, join us for a conversation with researchers tracking conspiracy theories and hate groups in the wake of the January 6th attacks on the U.S. Capitol. RSVP: bit.ly/3tg9t9o
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.@CounteringCrime's investigation on Facebook wildlife traffickers found over half the 473 pages & 281 groups ID'd selling wildlife were created during the past 2 years.
In May, TTP found pages trafficking endangered pangolin, a potential coronavirus host techtransparencyproject.org/…
@NatGeo reports on our fight to get illegal wildlife markets off #Facebook and other social media. 1/
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Good job building "meaningful communities," Facebook
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Facebook removal of data has "essentially told the trafficker that they’ve been spotted, so now they can go into hiding. How nice to be a criminal, and every time I’m about to get caught, a big company warns me, then scrubs all the [public] evidence.” —Steve Kohn @StopFraud
.@NatGeo INVESTIGATION: Black-market trade in #wildlife is online at 'dizzying' levels. llegal wildlife ads have increased on #Facebook despite steps to combat #animals trafficking. Crime watch groups are calling for legal reforms nationalgeographic.com/anima… @rebersole #WildlifeWatch