Climate groups and academics call on Google to extend its climate disinformation policy, demonetize and stop amplifying climate denial content, and collaborate with NGOs and academic experts to update its policies.
CCDH's new report shows that 10 X (Twitter) accounts promoting anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim & anti-Palestinian hate grew 4 times faster after October 7.
A new report by CCDH and MSI has found that tech platform, Meta, is restricting information on reproductive care in Africa, Asia and Latin America, while allowing and promoting ads sharing anti-choice misinformation and conspiracy theories.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate tested popular AI image tool - including Midjourney, ChatGPT Plus, DreamStudio and Microsoft’s Image Creator - and found that they create election disinformation in 41% of cases, including images that could support false claims about candidates or election fraud.
TikTok takes a step back on transparency by obscuring the number of views on hashtags, making it harder for researchers to study the reach of harmful content.
2023 was the hottest year on record, ever. Billions of people across the world experienced extreme heat, droughts, wildfires and major floods. Climate deniers can no longer pretend climate change isn’t happening - so they’ve changed their strategy. CCDH’s groundbreaking AI-powered research shows that New Climate Denial narratives that aim to undermine the climate movement, science and solutions, now constitute 70% of climate denial content on YouTube in 2023.
CCDH welcomes the opportunity to support the Biden Administration's efforts to address the mental health crisis among young people today as a result of unaccountable social media companies and their opaque algorithms, content policies and economic incentives.
New research shows that TikTok videos glorifying potentially deadly bodybuilding drugs and in some cases directing users to sites selling them have been seen at least 587 million times in the US in three years – including 420 million views from users aged 18-24 years old. TikTok must enforce their own rules and protect vulnerable users from harmful content. And Congress must hold the platform responsible and accountable if failing to do so.
New research by CCDH shows that X (formerly Twitter) continues to host nearly 86% of a set of 300 hateful posts after a week since we reported them. As of September 7th 2023, tweets promoting and glorifying antisemitism, anti-Black racism, neo-Nazism, white supremacy and/or other racism were still up.
CCDH’s new report shows that the majority of people in the US are tired of being exploited by social media companies and want governments and platforms to address online hate and disinformation. Most of the people polled agreed with the four principles of our STAR Framework for social media regulation: Safety by Design, Transparency, Accountability and Responsibility.
CCDH found 100 examples generated by Midjourney, including racist caricatures and realistic images designed to support conspiracies.
Organizations and experts expressed concern about the recent legal moves by X —formerly known as Twitter— against the Center for Countering Digital Hate and efforts to silence criticism of the platform. We view these efforts as a threat to the right to freedom of expression, resulting in a dangerous chilling effect on civil society, experts, and advocates – and ultimately the public, which deserves to know how Twitter/X and similar platforms are spreading hate and disinformation.