dear LibTech list, A new study, "Social Media and Luxury Goods Counterfeit" reveals that about a fifth of all items tagged as luxury goods on Instagram are fakes. The trend illustrates how the social media platform is contributing to the explosion of the Internet's counterfeit economy, which uses a system of online tools to ship illegal goods worldwide [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/26/that-chanel-bag-on-your-instagram-feed-may-not-be-a-chanel-bag/
I'm the author of the research, for any question feel free to e-mail me. best, Andrea -- *A*ndrea *S*troppa Security researcher, World Economic Forum https://agenda.weforum.org/people/andrea-stroppa/ @andst7
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