Listed alongside the more familiar knackered sofas and unwanted books are ancient, stolen treasures: Facebook Marketplace has ...

Facebook Marketplace has become a profitable hub for the sale of looted and trafficked Syrian antiquities. Since the fall of the Assad regime, "widespread poverty" and the "collapse" of the nation ...

Facebook Marketplace is typically used as a hub for thrifters to discover hidden gems that are now up for resale. But in ...

The illegal trafficking of Syrian antiquities has spiked dramatically since December ... The treasures are being sold online, primarily through Facebook Marketplace. “When the regime fell, we saw a ...

We examine the scale of the looting, how traffickers use the features of platforms like Facebook to facilitate their illegal businesses, and how the western art world could help tackle the issue.

In short: Facebook Marketplace dominates reports of online buying scams and the problem appears to be getting worse. NAB reports of "buying and selling" scams increased 78 per cent in the final ...