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🚨NEW: Shocking new analysis by @CCDHate found that tweets with anti-LGBTQ+ ‘grooming’ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over Twitter.

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CCDH identified over 1.7 million tweets and retweets since the start of 2022 that mention the LGBTQ+ community alongside slurs such as “groomer” and “pedophile”.
Over the past year, the LGBTQ+ community has been targeted by a wave of abuse centered on the false and hateful lie that they ‘groom’ children, often directed at teachers, Pride events and drag story hour events.
CCDH’s new research reveals that 5 highly popular accounts known for pushing anti-LGBTQ+ narrative generate up to $6.4m per year in ad revenue for the platform, and one was even reinstated by Musk after a permanent ban.
Out of the 5 accounts, Libs of TikTok, Gays Against Groomers & Chris Rufo have been listed by @ADL as top online amplifiers of anti-LGBTQ+ extremism.

Meanwhile, James Lindsay and Tim Pool have helped to popularize grooming rhetoric on Twitter.
Gays Against Groomers is known for spreading false narratives about the LGBTQ+ community, including “grooming”, “indoctrination” and “child mutilation”.

❗️Disney+ ads appear next to a tweet that amplifies the ‘grooming’ narrative.

@DisneyPlus, is this what you paid for?
Kindle’s ads are placed alongside anti-LGBTQ+ content shared by Libs of TikTok.

❌ Libs of TikTok is known for targeting people in the LGBTQ+ space - who often report real-world violence, harassment and threats after being targeted.

@AmazonKindle, is this what you paid for?
“Twitter must decide if they believe in the fundamental rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ people, or if they want to continue profiting from and normalizing hate. They cannot do both.”

Our CEO @Imi_Ahmed on CCDH’s latest findings about the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ hate on Twitter. 🗣
Twitter is profiting from a surge in anti-LGBTQ+ content that has dangerous offline consequences.

If @Twitter delays action, advertisers must intervene to #StopToxicTwitter.
Want to take action?

Add your name and call on advertisers to stop funding anti-LGBTQ+ hate on Twitter and #StopToxicTwitter 👇 act.counterhate.com/page/122077/pe…

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Feb 9
Why would Elon Musk reinstate @Twitter accounts of self-professed Nazis, conspiracy theorists, misogynists & homophobes? 🤔

Well, we found that just 10 such accounts are worth up to $19m a year 💰

Read our findings in @WashingtonPost:

#StopToxicTwitter

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This is where brands’ ad dollars are really going….

#StopToxicTwitter
Hi @PrimeVideo, your ad was placed alongside reinstated Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin who tweeted “the only career that a woman is actually capable of on merit is prostitution.”

@PrimeVideo, did you know your ads appear next to vile women hatred?
#StopToxicTwitter
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Jan 27
EXCLUSIVE: Google allowed Daily Wire to run ads on search results promoting hate and disinformation.

With the @guardian, we expose Daily Wire ads running on search keywords like:

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CCDH researchers identified ads for the Daily Wire on 155 unique search queries related to race, conspiracy theories and disinformation.

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Google Ads running on the keywords “why is climate change fake” directed users to a Daily Wire article promoting the idea that climate change is a “hoax” despite a 2021 promise from Google not to profit from ads promoting climate denial.
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Dec 15, 2022
BREAKING: TikTok’s algorithm is Deadly by Design.

Our new report shows how TikTok bombards new teen accounts with harmful videos about body image, mental health, eating disorders, and self-harm.

#FixTikTok

counterhate.com/research/deadl…
Our new research found TikTok recommends:

❌Videos about mental health & body image every 39s
❌Suicide content within 2.6 mins
❌Eating disorder content within 8 mins

An average US teen spends ~80 mins a day on TikTok. TikTok boosts content that impacts teens’ mental health.
Our latest report explores the experiences of 13-year-olds interested in mental health & body image setting up a new TikTok account.

We found these accounts received videos with self-harm content within 2.6 mins & could see their first piece of eating disorder content in 8 mins.
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Aug 19, 2022
🚨NEW: We discovered that @YouTube is making millions of dollars in ads placed on videos promoting violence against women by notorious TikTok ‘influencer’ Andrew Tate.

YouTube, owned by @Google, needs to stop profiting from violence and hatred of women.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Researchers identified 47 videos that showed Andrew Tate promoting hate and violence against women.

In one, for example, he encourages viewers to “grip [women] by the neck”.

9 videos played ads from major brands including @Schwarzkopf & @Vans
Tate encourages subscribers to his “Hustlers University'' scheme to repost clips of him far and wide, to drive people to his business.

This strategy has made him millions of pounds in less than 3 months.

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Aug 10, 2022
(1/10) 🚨BREAKING: @Twitter and @Meta fail to enforce their own rules, failing to act on 99% of the most-viewed tweets with LGBTQ+ hate. @CCDHate & @HRC new report 👇 counterhate.com/research/digit…
(2/10) We found an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ tweets of 406% emerging after political proponents of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ bill re-branded it as an “anti-grooming” bill. Image
(3/10) CCDH and @HRC collected a sample of nearly 1 million tweets that mention the LGBTQ+ community alongside slurs like “grooming” & “pedophilia”. Image
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Jan 13, 2022
NEW: Latest CCDH research shows that nearly half of accounts that Twitter fails to remove for sending misogynist abuse to high-profile women go on to post more misogynist abuse.

Read more in @thetimes

thetimes.co.uk/article/twitte…
In September, we reported nearly 300 tweets containing misogynist abuse. 48 hours later Twitter hadn’t acted on 97% of the accounts.

After 2 months, Twitter had still failed to act on 88% of the accounts.

We looked at the abusive accounts that remained on Twitter.

We found almost 1/2 of these accounts were “reoffenders” who had gone on to post more misogynist content that breaks Twitter’s rules on hate speech against women and girls.
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