Facebook is allowing pages controlled by Chinese state media to post clear disinformation, conspiracies and propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine that stand in stark contrast with China’s declared neutrality.
Facebook is failing to label 91% of posts containing Russian propaganda about Ukraine with warnings that the content originates with media outlets owned by the Russian state.
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.
VR Chat—the most reviewed social app in Facebook’s VR Metaverse—is rife with abuse, harassment, racism and pornographic content.
"Keeping people agitated, angered, emotional, enthralled and addicted to their ad-profit-pumping platforms yields enormous profits for social media companies." - Imran Ahmed, CEO Center for Countering Digital Hate
The science is undeniable - human activity is warming our planet at an ever-accelerating rate and leading to catastrophic climate change. Yet, ten publishers - The Toxic Ten - are spreading baseless, unscientific climate denial on their own websites and across social media. They are responsible for 69% of all interactions with climate denial content on Facebook. It's a climate denial propaganda machine funded in part by Google via ad revenue, and spread across the world via social media, in particular Facebook, who allow them to pay to promote their denial. We are calling on Facebook and Google to stop promoting and funding climate denial, start labelling it as misinformation, and stop giving the advantages of their enormous platforms to lies and misinformation.
Our CEO Imran Ahmed speaks Judiciary Committee on the 'State of Social Media Regulation - Misinformation, Exploitation, Harassment and Radicalization.
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”. Yet, Facebook and Google are selling ads for profit promoting this procedure, in some cases to minors as young as 13 years old
A handful of companies run by a small elite dominate the Internet economy. They own the platforms and technology on which 4.5 billion people share information, form and maintain relationships and transact business. The communities on these online platforms, the behaviours and beliefs, the values emerging from those spaces increasingly touch every aspect of offline society too.
Our latest report on anti-Jewish hatred shows they fail to enforce their own community guidelines against antisemitic content. Our researchers reported hundreds of racist anti-Jewish posts to social media firms using their user reporting tools. 84% were not acted upon. Tech companies are consciously giving a free pass to anti-Jewish hatred and the increasing threat to the Jewish community. Social media companies must do better. Platforms must support, hire and train moderators to remove this hate and those platforms must be held accountable if they fail to remove this hate.
New research conducted by the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows that Instagram failed to act on their promise to ban users who use racist abuse against footballers, even when posts were reported to their moderation teams using the platform’s own reporting tools.
Gateway Pundit, a misinformation site instrumental in spreading misinformation about a “stolen” election, generated up to $1.5 million in Google Ad revenue according to a new analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate based on figures published by Google.