Crimes don’t happen on the deep dark web. Instead, criminals operate in plain sight, on the platforms with the greatest reach - Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, etc. Our experts, who come from a variety of sectors, are using this publicly available information to map out how criminal networks work on a global scale. With this research, we are working to change industry-wide behavior and reduce the scale of online trafficking. Learn about the issues that we are working on.
With people in pandemic lockdown around the globe, and the world reeling from a mass extinction crisis, it might surprise you to learn that the world’s biggest markets for illegal wildlife products and exotic pets are located on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and China’s WeChat.
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