THREAD: Today Facebook’s PR team announces the efforts it’s making in content in Facebook groups.

This would be big if it wasn’t coming *years* after Facebook was warned about the harmful content in groups— it’s only happening now bec groups are making media waves https://twitter.com/fbnewsroom/status/1306609107068166150

In ATHAR Project's 2019 report, we highlighted the fact that Facebook groups were ground-zero for antiquities trafficking in the Middle East.

It took a year for the platform to add a policy on antiquities. But the problem is MUCH bigger than that

http://atharproject.org/report2019/ 

But it's not just antiquities— @CounteringCrime researchers have found that Facebook groups are used for all manner of trafficking from wildlife to drugs to human remains

There is no black market that doesn't exist in Facebook groups.

https://www.counteringcrime.org 

Facebook has failed to act when faced with rampant crime. It has left its users, the public, & its investors at risk

That’s why we joined @_CINTOC @CounteringCrime to file a SEC whistleblower case on the ongoing harm caused by crime in Facebook groups
https://www.counteringcrime.org/press-release