Google is helping anti-choice organizations to deceive hundreds of thousands of people seeking reproductive healthcare by promoting – and even subsidizing – misleading Google Search ads for “fake clinics”, a new report has found. Fake […]
Once a slang term confined to niche online forums, the term incel is now much more common in social and mainstream media – often linked to deadly attacks against women and tragic mass shootings. In […]
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today. However, the spread of disinformation and deceptive marketing tactics can hinder efforts to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. Climate change […]
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it affects us all. Yet greedy, unregulated social media and search engine companies have enabled a cascade of misinformation and disinformation about […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a block on Facebook’s parent company, Meta, monetizing user data that it collects on minors and pause its launch of new products and services. The FTC proposed changes […]
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has launched a new public service announcement (PSA) highlighting the damage to teenage girls’ mental health caused by aggressive social media algorithms. The ad was produced in partnership with […]
Press TV, a broadcasting brand founded by Iran’s state-controlled media corporation, is using social media to evade local broadcast bans and wage an antisemitic foreign influence campaign, a new report has found. The State Hate […]
Data access has become an increasingly complex and challenging issue for public interest researchers, especially on social media. Twitter is implementing stricter data access policies, and new research from CCDH shows TikTok ‘transparency’ appears to […]
Citing research that illustrates a number of serious risks to children and teens in the Metaverse, advocates say Meta must wait for more research and root out dangers before targeting youth in VR BOSTON, MA, […]
CCDH researchers found that when Bard was asked simple questions relating to false and hateful narratives, it usually refused to respond or disagreed. But faced with more complex prompts, such as being asked to take […]
There has been considerable public interest recently in the development of ‘generative AI’ language models like ChatGPT by OpenAI. Artificial Intelligence, known as AI, has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with technology, […]
Tweets mentioning the hateful anti-LGBTQ+ ‘grooming’ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over the platform, new analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found. Note: this analysis captures the volume […]