On September 8, 2026 a federal judge dismissed CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed’s lawsuit seeking to prevent the Trump administration from detaining and deporting him over his research and advocacy on online harms. If the government […]
In the first half of 2026, the European Commission opened new investigations, issued preliminary findings, imposed fines, designated new VLOPs and VLOSEs, and accepted compliance plans under the Digital Services Act. The substance of these […]
Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), released the following statement reacting to the $17.1 billion settlement between 51 AGs and Meta over social media addiction claims: “CCDH research repeatedly […]
Today, the Senate Commerce Committee passed several major bills on children’s online safety and artificial intelligence. The package reflects years of bipartisan work by lawmakers and advocacy organizations, like CCDH, who have made protecting children online a national priority. […]
Andy Burnham starts as the new British Prime Minister at a moment of rare political consensus, where most agree that social media companies have failed to protect children online. Before stepping down as Prime Minister, […]
The UK Government has announced amendments to the Online Safety Act that strengthen platforms’ obligations during major incidents and public safety crises. The new measures follow years of evidence and advocacy from CCDH. Our research into the Southport riots and more recently the […]
Ten years ago, on 16 June 2016, British Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist radicalized online. Jo was a passionate advocate for a more tolerant, united society. Her murder was a […]
The UK government has announced that social media will be banned for users under 16. This decision reflects what CCDH research has long identified: social media companies consistently fail to make their platforms safe for children. They design platforms that hook kids to their phones while feeding them harmful suicide, self-harm, or […]
Earlier this year, CCDH revealed the extraordinary scale of harm caused by X’s Grok AI image-editing feature. Our analysis estimated that Grok generated approximately 3 million photorealistic sexualized images over an 11-day period, including an estimated 23,000 sexualized images of children. One of the […]
“My grandmother changed her entire Medicare plan based on a Facebook ad.” Last year, Marissa’s 79-year-old grandmother, from Las Vegas, clicked on an ad promising her a $250 a month grocery stipend through Medicare. It […]
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificicent Humanity), signals the reality that AI has become societal infrastructure. The future of AI is not just a technical or business question, but a moral and social challenge that […]
Imran Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Center for Countering Digital Hate: The focus of Pope Leo XIV’s first papal encyclical on safeguarding humanity in the time of AI shows the world is waking up to a […]