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…anti-muslim hate, conspiracy theories which motivate violence, climate misinformation, vaccine disinformation, or the dozens of other topics we investigate – we’ve found time and time again that social media and…
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https://youtu.be/Vb6GCU5hTnA Take action now: Tell Substack to stop helping anti-vaxxers profit off misinformation Take Action Now The subscription newsletter platform Substack generates at least $2.5 million a year from five…
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Gateway Pundit, one of the most prolific publishers of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the 2020 Presidential election, earned up to $1.1 million in Google Ad revenue from November 2020…
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…stands at 7.67 million followers. CCDH is also monitoring 827 English-language accounts that have spread Covid or vaccine misinformation, with a current total of 62 million followers. New analysis we’ve…
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What's CCDH's STAR Framework? How can collective action and legislation address the dangers of online hate and misinformation?
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…snake oil salesman, Dr. Joe Mercola. In March 2021, CCDH identified Mercola as the leading superspreader of misinformation about vaccines in our report Disinformation Dozen, which revealed the 12 individuals…
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…climate change.”. The company set its own deadline of November 9th, giving ample time for ads to be removed from posts pushing climate denial and misinformation. However, on November 9th,…
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Panel: Bad Actors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ng66JOiMgE&list=PLEcb8pRWfsxVK6d19WCrClP3V_aZDAbN5&index=3 Panel: Bad Actors followed by Keynote Speaker Laura Bates Introduction Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate Panelists Callum Hood, Center for Countering…
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Anti-vaxxers met in private in late October 2020 to discuss their plans to disrupt the Covid vaccine. They didn't realise CCDH was there too. The Anti-Vaxx Playbook is our new report exposing their tactics, messages…
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The subscription newsletter platform Substack generates at least $2.5 million a year from five popular anti-vaccine newsletters, of which 10% goes to the company itself and 90% to the authors.
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Facebook and Google are selling ad space promoting so-called abortion "reversal" - a dangerous and unproven procedure. The only clinical trial for so-called abortion “reversals” was abandoned after some participants were hospitalized with “severe hemorrhaging”.…
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New research by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has discovered that previously banned Twitter accounts are generating millions of dollars in advertising revenue for the platform.