THE INTERNET IS AWASH WITH PREDATORS AND DANGEROUS CRIME.
We Can Make Social Media Safer
Our Vision
A world wide web free of organized crime and extremist content.
Our mission
Investigate, educate, and advocate for change.
About Us
The Alliance to Counter Crime Online groups 30 non-profits, academics and citizen investigators collectively fighting the growth of serious organized crime on the surface web. We share a commitment to justice, a dedication to countering exploitation in all its forms, and the courage to investigate some of the worst aspects of humankind. Every ACCO member has taken personal risks and made sacrifices to do what we do, out of passion for the subjects we seek to protect. We need that dedication to take on one of the world’s most powerful, well-funded industries: Big Tech and Big Crime.
ACCO members are leading authorities in a range of serious crime sectors online, including child sex abuse content, human trafficking, narcotics, wildlife, antiquities, and fraud. ACCO produces investigative reports and analysis about how illicit groups have weaponized social media, and we provide evidence we develop to regulators, lawmakers and the public.
Founding Members
Investigators
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Tim K. Mackey
Director, Global Health Policy Institute
Tim Ken Mackey is the Director of the Global Health Policy Institute, an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
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Samuel Hardy
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Cultural Heritage and Conflicts, Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo
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Dan Stiles
Independent Wildlife Trade Investigator
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Fiona Macleod
Investigative Environmental Journalist, Founder of Oxpeckers
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PATRICIA TRICORACHE
Illegal Wildlife Trade Expert
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Eileen Carey
Activist & Technologist
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Nilda M. Garcia
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Texas A&M University
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Duncan Jepson
Managing Director, Liberty Shared
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Suzan M. Cheyne
Primate Specialist, IUCN Section
On Small Apes
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Bryan Denny
Founder, Advocating Against
Romance Scammers
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David Ibsen
Executive Director, Counter
Extremism Project
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Teal Phelps Bondaroff
Director of Research, OceansAsia
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Nina Jackel
Founder, Lady Freethinker
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Kathryn F. Dean
Founder, Fake Review Watch
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Rowan Martin
Director, World Parrot Trust's Africa Conservation Programme
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Mandy Rude
Expert in Wildlife and Environmental Crime
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SHUBERT MWARABU
Tanzanian Singer and Wildlife Conservation Advocate
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Jaime Puerta
President of VOID
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Amy Neville
President, Alexander Neville Foundation
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SIGNY ARNASON
Associate Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Child Protection (C3P)
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William Ruzich
CEO, The Aracari Project
Are you concerned about the spread of violent extremism?
About endangered species disappearing?
About soaring drug-related death rates?
About children being trafficked for sex?
Are you angry about what the Internet has become?
You are not alone.
You can play a vital role: Spread the word of ACCO’s mission, and keep us moving forward