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Two Clicks Away: Wildlife Sales on Facebook

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Two Clicks Away: Wildlife Sales on Facebook

01 Oct 2020

In March 2018, Facebook joined the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, pledging alongside 30 major tech firms to remove 80% of wildlife trafficking content from their platforms by 2020. Two years on, the Alliance to Counter Crime Online (ACCO) conducted a study that found Facebook failed to keep its promise. In just two mouse clicks, our researchers could locate substantial illicit wildlife content.

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