Reports
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U.S. Presidential Election Tech Policy Analysis
Two Clicks Away: Wildlife Sales on Facebook
Automatic Detection of Potentially Illegal Online Sales of Elephant Ivory Via Data Mining
The Mainly Nameless and Faceless Dead: An Exploratory Study of the Illicit Traffic in Archaeological and Ethnographic Human Remains
‘Black Archaeology’ in Eastern Europe: Metal Detecting, Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Objects, and ‘Legal Nihilism’ in Belarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine
Quantitative Analysis of Open-Source Data on Metal Detecting for Cultural Property
The Illegal Wildlife Digital Market: An Analysis of Chinese Wildlife Marketing and Sale on Facebook
Towards a Method of Discerning Sources of Supply Within the Human Remains Trade Via Patterns of Visual Dissimilarity and Computer Vision
Mexican Narcos Have Grown Twitter Presence Since the Musk Takeover
YouTube: Profiting From Animal Abuse
The Illegal Cheetah Trade on Instagram
Illicit COVID-19 Product Sales on Twitter and Instagram
Facebook’s Black Market in Antiquities: ICOM Redlist Artifacts Offered on Facebook
A Machine Learning Approach for the Detection and Characterization of Illicit Drug Dealers on Instagram: Model Evaluation Study
Community Substandards: Capturing the Empty Promises of Big Tech’s Safety Against Online Romance Scams
Detecting Suicide and Self-Harm Discussions Among Opioid Substance Users on Instagram Using Machine Learning
The ESG Spotlight: Organized Crime and Terror on Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger
Your Power, Our People, The World’s Defense, in More Ways Than One: A Look at Reporting Fake Profiles
Online Social Organisation Of Looting And Trafficking Of Antiquities From Turkey, Greece And Cyprus
Facebook’s Black Market in Antiquities: Trafficking, Terrorism and War Crimes
The Antiquities Trade and Digital Networks: Or, the Supercharging Effect of Social Media on the Rise of the Amateur Antiquities Trader
The Dark Side of Social Media: The Case of the Mexican Drug War
The Deadly Underground World of Dogfighting on Facebook
Concern over Social Media Trafficking of Great Apes
Financing of Terrorism and Social Media Platforms
Financing of Terrorism and Social Media Platforms
Twitter-Based Detection of Illegal Online Sale of Prescription Opioid
Fleshing Out the Bones: Studying the Human Remains Trade with Tensorflow and Inception
Deep Fake Frauds
Russia was ‘Doomed to Expand [its] Aggression’ Against Ukraine: Cultural Property Criminals’ Responses to the Invasion and Occupation of the Donbas Since 20th February 2014
Hiding in Plain Site