The same coin is available in the legal market for $125. It was encouraging to see Senator Rand Paul hold Dr. Rachel Levine to account today on the issue of puberty-blocking drugs for minors with gender dysphoria. Kathleen Hicks: Excellent worst ideas, and the one that I think is just really well articulated is by two non CSIS scholars, Alexandra Evans and Alexandra Stark, the Alexandra’s, we'll refer to them as. View the profiles of professionals named "Alexandra Evans" on LinkedIn. On deep web platforms, such as Telegram and Facebook, we also find little evidence of antiquities sales, although other secure messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Viber, are used to coordinate sales and streamline communications within existing networks. at 50. ATHAR’s 2019-2020 Facebook campaign followed on an earlier series of articles by Katie Paul[4] and Amr al-Azm, alleging the existence of another major center for the illegal antiquities trade on the dark web, paralleling and in conjunction with the dark web’s drug and weapons sales. RAND, at 49-50 Dark Web, Caption: La web oscura se refiere al contenido en línea encriptado que no está indexado por los motores de búsqueda convencionales. Valar RPG. ... Not so fast, say Alexandra Evans of RAND Corp. and Alexandra Stark of New America Foundation. [9] Id. Analysis of two years of postings on Dream Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces, also failed to reveal postings for art or antiquities… Searches for a standard battery of antiquities-related word stems yielded only drug paraphernalia with ancient-looking designs. In a Product Policy Forum, Facebook outlined various options, stating, “…we have not, to date, prohibited the sale or exchange of historical artifacts in organic content… because such items hold significant personal and cultural value to certain communities and can be sold and acquired legally across various jurisdictions…however… the sale of historical artifacts can result in harmful behaviour…”[1], Facebook cited three reasons for the policy change: (1) commentators describe the global market in antiquities is a ‘grey market’, (2) there is a good chance that historical artifacts traded online are either illegal or fake, as an estimated 80% of antiquities have ‘sketchy provenances,’ and (3) there is criticism that Facebook’s policy has led the platform to become a digital black market where users buy and sell illicit antiquities originating from conflict zones.”. The report found that the entire narrative on the antiquities trade has been “dominated by speculation and hypotheses.”[6] The RAND report found that popular narratives claiming that organized networks of international criminals were looting for hire were unsubstantiated. RAND Corporation Report Blows ATHAR Claims Away. Although it provides anonymity and security, the dark web also limits the size of the audience that sellers can reach by requiring that they access a site using specific browsing software and a specific connection protocol. It states, “We find that the entire market (looted or not) is not likely to be larger than a few hundred million dollars each year. [4] Katie Paul, Ancient Artifacts vs. Digital Artifacts: New Tools for Unmasking the Sale of Illicit Antiquities on the Dark Web, Antiquities Coalition, Arts, 2018,7, 12; doi:10.3390/arts7020012, [5] Matthew Sargent, James V. Marrone, Alexandra Evans, Bilyana Lilly, Erik Nemeth, and Stephen Dalzell, Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open Source Data, xii, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 2020, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2706.html. Her current project uses recently declassified records to evaluate the Reagan administration’s failed diplomatic and military interventions in Lebanon, demonstrating how the intensity and complexity of the country’s violence forced policymakers to confront the limits of U.S. power and the flaws of their own strategic thinking. RAND Corporation. One organization, ATHAR, headed by Katie Paul, former Director of Programs at the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C and one-time Research Director of the Antiquities Coalition, has heavily promoted claims about Facebook’s supposed ties to a massive network of illegal traders in antiquities. from Vassar College. The ATHAR report criticized Facebook’s failure to police illegal activities by antiquities-oriented user groups, stating that Facebook and other portals allowed criminals, including transnational networks supporting terrorist activities, to sell looted objects and promote ‘looting for hire.’ The report also included dozens of screenshots of internet offerings of alleged antiquities for sale. A major 2020 study by the RAND Corporation, Tracking and Disrupting the Illicit Antiquities Trade with Open Source Data[5], undercuts many of the claims made by ATHAR. Alexandra Stark is a senior researcher at New America. xii, 43, Facebook announced on June 23, 2020 that it would remove content “that attempts to buy, sell or trade in historical artifacts” on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. var addy_text7c780b402e75460176c0c74529013d5b = 'Alexandra.Evans' + '@' + 'austin' + '.' + 'utexas' + '.' + 'edu';document.getElementById('cloak7c780b402e75460176c0c74529013d5b').innerHTML += ''+addy_text7c780b402e75460176c0c74529013d5b+'<\/a>'; Alexandra Evans. ... Zachary Evans. These features impose transaction costs that make the dark web a poor match for most categories of transactions.”[15], No Connection to Weapons or Drug Trafficking, RAND found no evidence that trafficking in antiquities/cultural property in the Mideast overlaps trade in drugs and weapons.