Center for Countering Digital Hate
@CCDHate
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International organization disrupting the production and spread of hate & misinformation. US 501(c)(3) non-profit. Press: press @counterhate .com
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🚨NEW: CCDH found that 6 popular AI audio cloning tools can generate convincing election disinformation in the voice of leading US, UK & EU politicians in 80% of our tests.
Election disinfo deepfakes can mislead voters & threaten democracy 🧵
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Great article on how
@SelenaGomez
uses her voice behind the scenes and publicly with Big Tech to counter hate and disinformation.
She is incredibly effective. We are proud to work with her fighting for what’s right.
.
@SelenaGomez
says Facebook is "cashing in from evil." Gomez exchanged emails with the social media giant's COO Sheryl Sandberg as part of a public and private fight against online misinformation and hate. She's now sharing the messages with
@AP
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Instagram is broken.
Its algorithm is recommending Covid and vaccine lies to millions of users during a pandemic.
Our new report with
@RestlessDev
exposes the problem and how
@Instagram
's owner
@Facebook
can fix it.
Sign our open letter to
#fixinstagram
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Twitter has accepted that Katie Hopkins violated their hateful conduct policy and temporarily locked her account. Now they must permanently remove her from their platform.
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🚨
@ElonMusk
has claimed he is a free speech absolutist, but he is now using his attorneys to try to silence CCDH with bogus legal threats.
Billionaires can’t bully us or our attorney
@kaplanrobbie
. Here’s our response ⤵️
#MuskMeltdown
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Our CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
went live with
@JessicaYellin
to talk about the responsibility of social media for yesterday’s riot on Capitol Hill.
Head over to our Instagram @/counterhate to watch the conversation in full 👇
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Great to see our research & recommendations being used by the
@WhiteHouse
.
It's vital
@Facebook
take immediate action to remove harmful
#antivaxx
misinformation.
Psaki: There’s about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms. All of them remain active on Facebook despite some being banned on other platforms including ones that Facebook owns
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New
@washingtonpost
article reveals Facebook aggressively pushed back against our Disinformation Dozen report despite internal evidence supporting us.
As our CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
said: If Facebook had shared more information, "lives would have been saved."
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“There is a tax being put on us being able to express our voices”
Our CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
told
@technews_weekly
that
@instagram
and
@Meta
are failing to protect women, people of color, and LGBT people from an epidemic of online abuse.
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NEW: Facebook and Instagram are hosting accounts that sell neo-Nazi merchandise to fund far-right extremism.
Facebook was told two years ago and failed to act.
Our breaking research in
@ObserverUK
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🚨 NEW: Facebook is failing to label 91% of posts containing Russian propaganda about Ukraine
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Engaging with trolls is bad for society as it amplifies & spreads hate, and it’s bad to your own mental wellbeing. If you see someone engaging with trolls, please send them our guide so they can get informed on how to deal with hate.
#DontFeedTheTrolls
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Democracy requires good decision-making. There must be robust differences of opinion, but facts remain sacred. Democracy relies on shared facts. Dictatorship relies on shared lies.
@Facebook
, you need to stop sharing lies.
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NEW: Just 12 anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost 2/3rds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms.
@Facebook
,
@Instagram
,
@Twitter
and
@YouTube
must deplatform the Disinformation Dozen.
Our new research with
@AntiVaxWatchOrg
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THREAD: YouTube suspended Donald Trump for inciting violence and telling lies.
But YouTube still makes big $$ off videos likes this one blaming "antifa" for the riots and talking about "civil war".
@YouTube
stop profiting from extremism and lies.
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The world’s richest man tried to use his money to silence our research on X - it didn’t work.
This is a huge win for independent researchers everywhere. We’ll keep holding social media bosses like Musk accountable. Read more in
@Variety
⤵️
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🚨 EXPOSED: Google took $10.9m dollars from Big Oil to appear at the top of search results for terms like “eco-friendly”.
Our groundbreaking research reveals how Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing.
@Google
must
#BreakUpWithBigOil
👉
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Why would Elon Musk reinstate
@Twitter
accounts of self-professed Nazis, conspiracy theorists, misogynists & homophobes? 🤔
Well, we found that just 10 such accounts are worth up to $19m a year 💰
Read our findings in
@WashingtonPost
:
#StopToxicTwitter
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🚨WIN: CCDH has had Musk’s baseless & intimidatory lawsuit against us thrown out of court! Our amazing lawyers at
@KaplanHecker
aided us in getting Judge Breyer to dismiss the case.
A huge win for everyone working to hold social media giants to account.
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The cynical placement by
@Facebook
of ads for military gear next to posts containing violent extremism is not an *error*. This is *by design* in a system that prioritises profits over people and the public good.
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🚨 NEW: Twitter is failing to act on 99% of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users.
Our research in
@thedailybeast
shows that, for just $8 a month, users not only get a 'blue tick' but have their hateful content boosted by Elon Musk’s Twitter.🧵
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Anti-vaxxers have been meeting secretly to plan how to stop the Covid vaccine.
We were there.
Today, we’re exposing their playbook.
And showing how you can help to counter it.
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Steve Bannon called for the brutal murder of a specified individual. This is clearly against
@YouTube
and
@Facebook
’s terms of service. And if isn’t, it should be. They are wrong to prioritise their short term profiting from his hate over the long term health of our society.
Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded
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You can help counter lies about Covid vaccines.
Share this infographic to get the word out on how we can avoid boosting anti-vaccine narratives and instead counter them with positive information.
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Musk is throwing a tantrum and having his lawyers threaten us with legal action for exposing hate & lies on Twitter.
Billionaires can’t bully independent researchers.
Read more in
@RawStory
👇
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BREAKING: New CCDH report reveals that a Toxic Ten of digital publishers fuel 69% of engagement with digital climate change disinformation.
Facebook and Google claim they’re green but both fund, promote and profit from lies that delay crucial action on climate change ⬇️
#COP26
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James O'Brien discusses our new report on LBC.
He tells listeners he won't give a platform to anti-vaxxers who spread dangerous misinformation.
Facebook could learn a thing or two. 👇
James O'Brien is talking about the 1 in 6 Britons who will refuse a coronavirus vaccine - but he won't be talking to anti-vaxxers about it: "I can't promote opinions or ideas that will kill other people listening."
@mrjamesob
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#antivaxxers
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Help stop the spread of dangerous misinformation about
#Coronavirus
.
Follow our advice below, backed by the UK Government, and we can drown out misinformation with information to keep us all safe.
#DontSpreadTheVirus
Find out more:
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BREAKING: Our new report reveals David Icke's conspiracies about COVID-19 have been viewed over 30 million times.
We are demanding that social media giants
#DeplatformIcke
Sign our open letter here:
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WATCH:
@eddieizzard
tells social media users that "life is too short" to respond to online trolls and abuse.
#DontFeedTheTrolls
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In 48 hours both Facebook and YouTube have deleted David Icke after our report on his toxic COVID-19 misinformation.
Now we need
@Instagram
and
@Twitter
to follow suit.
800 people have signed our
#DeplatformIcke
open letter. Add your name here:
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🚨NEW: Twitter/X keeps hosting 86% of 300 posts containing racism, antisemitism & neo-Nazism reported by us.
While
@elonmusk
tries to silence CCDH, his platform descends into a cesspit of hate. More in
@thedailybeast
🧵
TW: violence, racism, antisemitism
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"Social media companies say that they're doing their utmost, but in reality, they're doing absolutely nothing."
Our CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
for
@BBCNews
on the spread of vaccine misinformation.
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Elon Musk is targeting CCDH because we’re a leading voice exposing how hate speech & lies skyrocketed on Twitter under his ownership.
By threatening us,
@ElonMusk
is trying to hide the truth about his own failures and save his plummeting ad revenues.
#MuskMeltdown
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NEW: Facebook has allowed the organisers of "Stop the Steal" to carry on promoting protests at vote counts.
These allies of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are now using other pages and groups to push dangerous misinformation.
We identified them last week. When will Facebook act?
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"They're killing people."
@POTUS
today highlighted the impact of anti-vaxx misinformation shared online - and the platforms allowing them to do it.
Stop the spread of these pandemic profiteers:
#liescostlives
Reporter: "On Covid misinformation, what's your message to platforms like Facebook?"
Biden: "They're killing people"
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NEW: “The Duke of Sussex is right to highlight the unique capacity & moral duty advertisers have to force platforms to do something about bigotry & dangerous misinformation.”
Our CEO,
@imi_ahmed
welcoming Prince Harry’s support for
#StopHateForProfit
👇
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UPDATE: Facebook has removed the "Stop the Steal" group spreading dangerous misinformation about vote counts.
This should never have been allowed to happen.
Facebook must now suspend the operators of this page to prevent them from simply starting again.
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NEW: Google is making millions of dollars from websites spreading misinformation about the Presidential Election.
It’s time for
@Google
to stop profiting from and funding dangerous lies.
Here’s what we found ⬇️
#no2misinfo
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@Facebook
and
@Instagram
host anti-vaxx accounts with 40 million followers.
Facebook Group tools are being used to train new anti-vaxx activists.
@ChanZuckerberg
claim to support vaccines. When will they act?
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Elon Musk can’t have it both ways. He is happy to allow neo-Nazis back on Twitter, but throws a tantrum when independent researchers expose the scale of toxicity on his platform. Now, his lawyers are threatening us.
Read more in
@BBCNews
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“Elon Musk wants to silence his critics so he can continue to give a megaphone to hate and misinformation while avoiding the consequences.” - CCDH CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
.
We stand by our research and won’t be intimidated by Musk’s threats.
#MuskMeltdown
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You read that right. The richest man in the world is spending time & money to silence his critics with “lawfare”.
@ElonMusk
’s lawyers sent us a letter filled with what our attorney described as "ridiculous" threats.
#MuskMeltdown
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Following our meeting with
@Twitter
this week, they have locked Katie Hopkins out of her account & accepted that she violated their hateful conduct policy. Here are just some reasons we have called on them to permanently remove her from their platform [THREAD]
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Elon Musk encouraged a spike of hate and racism on Twitter, and he doesn’t care to stop it.
Instead, he threatens us because we've exposed his failures and demand more transparency and accountability.
More in
@thetimes
⤵️
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Today, we are publishing
#DontFeedTheTrolls
, our first report which provides a practical guide for what to do if you’re targeted by online trolls.
Download and read the report here:
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Musk can’t have it both ways. He is happy to allow neo-Nazis back on Twitter, but throws a tantrum when independent researchers expose the scale of toxicity on his platform.
Platforms must be held accountable for spreading hate & lies. More in
@Gizmodo
:
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NEW: Big Tech is still failing to remove harmful misinformation.
Social media companies remove or label just 1 in every 8 posts reported to them for containing misinformation about Covid and vaccines.
Our joint study with
@CBCMarketplace
is out today 👇
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We joined 40 of the world's leading civil society organizations calling on
@Twitter
's top advertisers to stop running ads if Musk cuts back on content moderation.
This is what the power of collective action looks like.
Donate & support our campaign 👇
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🚨UPDATE: CCDH has filed a response to Musk’s X Corp’s baseless lawsuit against us.
Musk’s move is a textbook example of a wealthy, unaccountable billionaire using his power to silence his critics.
Here’s what’s happened 🧵
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Facebook’s response is classic deflection and ignores their culpability in the spread of dangerous misinformation.
Zuckerberg was briefed on the Disinformation Dozen in March.
Platforms continually fail to act when it comes to misinformation — and lies cost lives. Period.
JUST IN:
@Facebook
responds to Biden (“They’re killing people”) re: COVID misinformation: “The facts show Facebook is helping save lives. Period.”
Full statement here.
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Share our response and demand more accountability & transparency from
@ElonMusk
and Twitter.
#MuskMeltdown
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"The failure of social media giants to effectively tackle online hate and misinformation has real-world impacts. Words can kill."
Our CEO
@imi_ahmed
’s Op-ed on last week’s tragic mass shooting featured in the
@guardian
🔗👇
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🚨NEW: CCDH reveals notorious antivaxxers generate at least $2.5M a year publishing anti-vaxx misinfo on
@SubstackInc
the subscription newsletter platform.
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We’re very pleased with Judge Charles Breyer’s decision to dismiss Elon Musk’s baseless lawsuit against CCDH.
We’ll continue exposing hate & lies on X, and campaigning for social media bosses like Musk to be held accountable.
More in
@thehill
👇
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NEW: Yesterday tech CEOs told Congress they had acted on the Disinformation Dozen - 12 people responsible for 65% of vaccine disinformation.
It's not true.
Our new report shows they are still online, posting lies viewed up to 29m times in the last month.
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Before
@ElonMusk
’s lawyers threatened CCDH with legal action, Musk used his own platform to bully us.
He called us ‘evil’ and our CEO
@imi_ahmed
a ‘rat’.
#MuskMeltdown
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Instagram has banned Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Del Bigtree for spreading misinformation about Covid and vaccines.
But their organisations - Children's Health Defense and ICAN - are still on there.
This isn't going to work unless
@Facebook
uproots these networks in full.
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The world’s richest man tried to use his money to silence our research on X - it didn’t work.
This is a huge win for independent researchers everywhere. We’ll keep holding social media bosses like Musk accountable. Read more in
@RollingStone
👇
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"Facebook served dangerous “abortion reversal” ads viewed 18.4 million times...Facebook fails to keep misinformation off its platform."
Great write up on our new report from
@Gizmodo
.
Demand
@facebook
takes action. Sign ➡️
Facebook Profits From Showing Teens Unethical 'Abortion Reversal' Ads
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Facebook and Instagram are allowing neo-Nazis with 80,000 followers to openly sell products featuring:
❌ Symbols of the Nazi SS
❌ Praise for Nazi death squads
❌ Antisemitic imagery
❌ Celebration of racist violence
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BREAKING: TikTok’s algorithm is Deadly by Design.
Our new report shows how TikTok bombards new teen accounts with harmful videos about body image, mental health, eating disorders, and self-harm.
#FixTikTok
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Our new research reveals: A Failure to Protect.
👉23 groups dedicated to anti-Muslim hatred
👉530 posts with 25M views
👉Platforms took no action on 89% of the content reported
It’s time to legislate, moderate and remove the hate.
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Researchers identified 47 videos that showed Andrew Tate promoting hate and violence against women.
In one, for example, he encourages viewers to “grip [women] by the neck”.
9 videos played ads from major brands including
@Schwarzkopf
&
@Vans
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Hi
@PrimeVideo
, your ad was placed alongside reinstated Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin who tweeted “the only career that a woman is actually capable of on merit is prostitution.”
@PrimeVideo
, did you know your ads appear next to vile women hatred?
#StopToxicTwitter
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Our research into the pandemic profiteers revealed how antisemitism has become part of the anti-vaxx playbook.
Anti-vaxxers have adopted the yellow star to promote their cause, desecrating a symbol from the Holocaust to persuade people against vaccines.
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🚨NEW: We found that 10 hate spreaders are exploiting the Israel-Gaza conflict to boost their accounts on
@X
- and Elon Musk’s platform is profiting from ads on their extreme content.
Their accounts grew 4 times faster after October 7🧵
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The Stop the Steal Facebook group is calling on its 300,000 members to protest vote counts in battleground states.
One administrator has told them "Don’t worry about permits or anything like that. Just do it."
They are planning nationwide protests this Saturday.
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Stop the Steal is a blatant attempt to organise interference in vote counts across the US.
It is operated by individuals closely linked to Trump himself.
If
@Facebook
is serious about combatting attempts to undermine the election, it must be shut down.
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Musk is targeting CCDH because we’re a leading voice exposing how hate speech & lies skyrocketed on Twitter under his ownership.
By threatening us,
@ElonMusk
is trying to hide the truth about his own failures.
More in
@washingtonpost
⤵️
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Elon Musk encouraged a spike of hate and racism on Twitter, and he doesn’t care to stop it.
Instead of dealing with the toxic environment he’s created, he points fingers at us for exposing the wave of hate on Twitter.
#MuskMeltdown
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BREAKING: YouTube appears to have removed David Icke's personal channel after our report found millions had viewed his videos pushing COVID-19 misinformation.
Let's get
@Instagram
and
@Twitter
to follow suit - sign our open letter to
#DeplatformIcke
:
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Katie Hopkins’ account has one million followers. One video she posted targeting black Londoners received 14 million views. Her presence on Twitter allows her to spread hateful ideas to a mass audience.
@Twitter
must show the
#WillToAct
& permanently ban her from its platform.
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Social media is damaging young people's mental health. It's time Congress protects kids from harmful online content.
A huge thank you to Laura Linney and the
@EIFoundation
for amplifying this important message. 👇
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“Musk is targeting CCDH because we reveal the truth about the spread of hate and disinformation on Twitter under his ownership, and it’s impacting his bottom line.”
Our CEO
@Imi_Ahmed
in
@Guardian
on Musk's threat to CCDH 👇
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📢 BREAKING: CCDH identified 4,621 fake Twitter accounts used to support misogynist Andrew Tate.
These bot accounts tweeted over 15k times using hashtags that glorify Tate.
Read more in
@BuzzFeed
👇
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CCDH has won the dismissal of Elon Musk’s baseless & intimidatory lawsuit to silence our research.
This is a huge win for organizations holding social media giants accountable. More in
@latimes
:
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"Musk is trying to ‘shoot the messenger’ who highlights the toxic content on his platform rather than deal with the toxic environment he’s created. CCDH’s independent research won’t stop - Musk will not bully us into silence."
@Imi_Ahmed
in
@FoxNews
👇
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Elon Musk’s latest legal move is straight out of the authoritarian playbook – he is now showing he'll stop at nothing to silence anyone criticizing him for his own decisions and actions.
We stand by our research. Billionaires can’t bully us.
Via
@THR
⤵️
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Elon Musk claims to be a free speech absolutist - yet he spends his money trying to silence independent research.
We won’t let arrogant billionaires bully us.
More in
@BBCNews
⤵️
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"Many of these leading anti-vaxxers are alternative health entrepreneurs… They’re reaching millions of users every day."
Our Head of Research
@CallumHood
quoted in the
@guardian
on how wellness influencers are promoting vaccine scepticism.
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We’re calling on brands to join the 500 advertisers who’ve already stopped advertising on Twitter.
Do the right thing and stop funding Toxic Twitter. Remove your ads from the platform now.
#StopToxicTwitter
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Elon Musk has made Twitter a safe space for white supremacists but a hellscape for people of color.
Our research in
@FortuneMagazine
on the surge in anti-Black hate speech after Musk’s Twitter takeover.
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