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Jul 31 • 6 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🚨@ElonMusk has claimed he is a free speech absolutist, but he is now using his attorneys to try to silence CCDH with bogus legal threats.

Billionaires can’t bully us or our attorney @kaplanrobbie. Here’s our response ⤵️
#MuskMeltdown
nytimes.com/2023/07/31/tec…
You read that right. The richest man in the world is spending time & money to silence his critics with “lawfare”.

@ElonMusk’s lawyers sent us a letter filled with what our attorney described as "ridiculous" threats.

#MuskMeltdown Image
Before @ElonMusk’s lawyers threatened CCDH with legal action, Musk used his own platform to bully us.

He called us ‘evil’ and our CEO @imi_ahmed a ‘rat’.

#MuskMeltdown Image
Elon Musk is targeting CCDH because we’re a leading voice exposing how hate speech & lies skyrocketed on Twitter under his ownership.

By threatening us, @ElonMusk is trying to hide the truth about his own failures and save his plummeting ad revenues.

#MuskMeltdown Image
“Elon Musk wants to silence his critics so he can continue to give a megaphone to hate and misinformation while avoiding the consequences.” - CCDH CEO @Imi_Ahmed.

We stand by our research and won’t be intimidated by Musk’s threats.

#MuskMeltdown Image
Share our response and demand more accountability & transparency from @ElonMusk and Twitter.

#MuskMeltdown counterhate.com/blog/letters-f…

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Jun 15
🚨NEW: @Google makes millions of dollars betraying the trust of people seeking information about abortion.

We found that fake clinics spent $10.2M on Google ads in the last 2 years, spreading lies & blocking access to healthcare🧵

More in @thedailybeast: thedailybeast.com/google-making-…
How does it work?

The anti-choice movement places ads promoting fake clinics on @Google Search, targeting people seeking reproductive healthcare.

Fake clinics claim to offer independent advice but in reality weaponize fear and lies to restrict abortion care. Image
What did we find?

71% of fake clinics websites used at least 1 deceptive technique:

➡️ 16% promoted misleading claims about abortion
➡️ 38% failed to clearly state that they don't provide abortions
➡️ 40% promoted unproven and potentially unsafe abortion pill “reversal” Image
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May 31
🚨 NEW: Twitter is failing to act on 99% of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users.

Our research in @thedailybeast shows that, for just $8 a month, users not only get a 'blue tick' but have their hateful content boosted by Elon Musk’s Twitter.🧵
thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-…
CCDH reported tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers containing neo-Nazi, racist, homophobic, antisemitic or conspiracy content.

After 4 days, 99% of the tweets were still up on Twitter and none of the accounts had been removed. Image
This cash-for-hate business model breaks Twitter’s own rules.

Their failure to remove these tweets directly violates their policy on “Hateful Conduct”.
help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p… Image
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Apr 5
🚨 BREAKING: CCDH found that Google's new AI chatbot, Bard, generates misinformation on 78 out of 100 false and harmful narratives without disclaimers.

A thread 🧵 thedailybeast.com/googles-ai-cha…
We tested Bard's guardrails against harmful content by creating a list of 100 false and harmful narratives on topics including climate change, vaccines, Covid-19, conspiracy theories, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, sexism, antisemitism, and racism.

The results were shocking 👇 Image
Our research shows that Bard can generate text promoting false and harmful narratives without any additional context negating the false claims.

In its current state, malicious individuals can weaponize AI to spread lies at scale. Image
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Mar 28
🚨NEW: Shocking new analysis by @CCDHate found that tweets with anti-LGBTQ+ ‘grooming’ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over Twitter.

A thread 🧵
counterhate.com/research/toxic…
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.
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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

washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Brands like @Apple, @Amazon and @NFL can expect to see their ads appear next to Andrew Tate, Andrew Anglin & Robert Malone to name a few.

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:

❌black crime
❌george soros evil
❌why is climate change fake

theguardian.com/environment/20…
CCDH researchers identified ads for the Daily Wire on 155 unique search queries related to race, conspiracy theories and disinformation.

counterhate.com/blog/google-ad…
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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