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TikTok’s Toxic Trade

How TikTok promotes dangerous and potentially illegal steroid-like drugs to teens.

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.

View report Published September 28, 2023

Cover of CCDH's latest report on X's content moderation failure. Cover shows an image of x and distorted screenshots of hateful tweets identified throughout the report.

X Content Moderation Failure

How Twitter/X continues to host posts we reported for extreme hate speech

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.

View report Published September 13, 2023

Public Support for Social Media Reform

Assessing CCDH's STAR Framework for social media regulation

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.

View report Published August 16, 2023

AI tool Midjourney is letting users generate racist and conspiratorial images

AI image tool Midjourney is being used to generate conspiratorial and racist images

How Midjourney is Failing to Stop Users From Generating Racist and Conspiratorial Images

CCDH found 100 examples generated by Midjourney, including racist caricatures and realistic images designed to support conspiracies.

View report Published August 11, 2023

Screenshot of letter of organizations standing against elon musk for suing independent researchers at CCDH

64 Experts Stand Against Elon Musk’s Attempts to Silence CCDH

Leading organizations and experts stand with CCDH

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.

View report Published August 09, 2023

AI and Eating Disorders

How Generative AI Enables and Promotes Harmful Eating Disorder Content

CCDH’s latest research reveals AI tools can generate harmful content about eating disorders 41% of the time.

View report Published August 07, 2023

Coalition letter OSB data access amendment - CCDH

Letter to UK Government: Data Access in Online Safety Bill

The UK government must adopt a data access amendment to the Online Safety Bill for greater transparency from social media companies.

CCDH and other online harms experts, including the 5Rights Foundation, NSPCC and the Molly Rose Foundation have warned the Government that its Online Safety Bill is in “serious peril” of passing without powers for “meaningful transparency”.

View report Published June 19, 2023

Profiting from Deceit

How Google Profits From Anti-Choice Ads Distorting Searches For Reproductive Healthcare

Google is helping anti-choice organizations to deceive hundreds of thousands of people in the US seeking reproductive healthcare and abortion information by promoting misleading Google Search ads for “fake clinics”.

View report Published June 15, 2023

Montage of Elon Musk next to Twitter's Blue Tick symbol and a representation of the symbol with $8 and exclamation marks to represent swearing.

Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate

How Twitter fails to rein in toxicity among Twitter Blue users.

New research shows that Twitter fails to act on 99% of hate posted by Twitter Blue subscribers, suggesting that the platform is allowing them to break its rules with impunity and is even algorithmically boosting their toxic tweets.

View report Published June 01, 2023

YouTube’s Climate Denial Dollars

How Google is breaking its promise to stop profiting from ads on climate denial videos.

CCDH and the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition found 200 videos on YouTube containing disinformation about climate change, with half of them directly breaching Google’s policy. In total, they were seen 73.8 million times.

View report Published May 03, 2023

State Hate

How Iran’s Press TV Uses Social Media to Promote Anti-Jewish Hatred

Press TV, an Iranian state-controlled broadcasting channel, uses social media to spread antisemitic hate. A new report by CCDH and the Anti-Defamation League shows how Press TV weaponizes social media platforms to promote Palestine Declassified, a propaganda tool that spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories.

View report Published April 27, 2023

Misinformation on Bard, Google’s new AI chat

Google’s new ‘Bard’ AI generates false and harmful narratives on 78 out of 100 topics.

A new study raises safety concerns about Google’s new Bard AI after finding that the tool generates persuasive misinformation content on 78 out of 100 narratives tested.

View report Published April 05, 2023

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