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Here you will find all of CCDH's research papers and investigations into online hate and misinformation. As well as our policy ideas about how we can tackle the systems and bad actors who spread hate and misinformation.

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Google Directs Users to Anti-Abortion ‘Fake Clinics’

1 in 10 abortion search results in “Trigger Law” states lead to anti-abortion fake clinics

Our latest research has found 1 in 10 Google search results for abortion services in ‘Trigger Law’ states lead users to anti-abortion ‘fake clinics’. These ‘fake clinics’ appear to offer independent advice on abortions but are actually run by organisations that oppose abortion, shame abortion care, or promote alternatives to abortion.

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Anti-Muslim Hate

Failure to protect

Social media companies are failing to act on Anti-Muslim Hate 89% of the time. Earlier reports by CCDH have shown platforms have similarly failed to act on antisemitism, anti-black racism, misogynist abuse and dangerous vaccine misinformation. Join us and demand Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube take swift action to stop profiting from and ban stop anti-Muslim hate on their platforms.

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Hidden Hate

How Instagram fails to act on 9 in 10 reports of misogyny in DMs

We conducted several case studies in partnership with women with large Instagram followings to reveal how Meta, in its continued negligence and disregard for the people using its platforms whilst churning record profits, has created an environment where abuse and harmful content is allowed to thrive. This denies those being abused the ability to freely express themselves online.

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The Toxic Ten

The Toxic Ten How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial

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.

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Endangering Women for Profit

Facebook and Google sell ad space for dangerous medical misinformation

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

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