🚨 NEW: Instagram failed to act on 93% of the abusive comments targeting high-profile US women candidates we reported, including death & r*pe threats.

@Meta must step up to protect women and public officials ahead of the US election.

More in @CNBC 👇
cnbc.com/2024/08/14/ins… CCDH reported 1,000 abusive comments targeting 5 Republican & 5 Democrat women candidates running for office in 2024.

A week later, Instagram had taken no action against 926 of these hateful comments, including:
🛑 Sexist abuse
🛑 Racist abuse
🛑 Death & r*pe threats

📣WIN: YouTube has demonetized the Heartland Institute, a leading climate denial think tank.

In April, we led 24 organizations in calling on @YouTube to enforce its climate policies.

Heartland will no longer profit from ads on content designed to undermine climate action. Our flagship report, The New Climate Denial, found @YouTube profits from the Heartland Institute's climate denial.

Ads were running on videos claiming renewable energy is "environmentally devastating" and that key climate science papers are "garbage".

Now that's stopped.

🚨NEW: We found that Midjourney keeps generating misleading images of US & EU politicians - despite its new policy to stop election disinformation.

The AI tool generated convincing deepfakes in 40% of our tests, including images of Biden, Trump & Macron.
thetimes.com/article/2c9dea… We tested Midjourney & ChatGPT Plus with election disinfo prompts – and found a stark difference between the AI tools.

While ChatGPT generated convincing images 3.3% of the time, Midjourney’s security features were easily bypassed to create harmful disinfo ahead of big elections

🚨NEW: Meta & Google are hindering access to reproductive health information in Africa, Asia & Latin America - while profiting from anti-abortion misinfo ads.

@CCDHate & @MSIchoices found platforms are misleading people seeking reliable medical info⤵️ metro.co.uk/2024/03/27/goo… Meta has restricted @MSIchoices’ ads promoting accurate information on reproductive health services in Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria & Vietnam.

These included vital content about cervical cancer screening tests, IUDs, contraceptive pills & safe abortion.

🚨WIN: CCDH has had Musk’s baseless & intimidatory lawsuit against us thrown out of court! Our amazing lawyers at @KaplanHecker aided us in getting Judge Breyer to dismiss the case.

A huge win for everyone working to hold social media giants to account. counterhate.com/blog/elon-musk… “The Court notes, too, that X Corp.’s motivation in bringing this case is evident. X Corp. has brought this case in order to punish CCDH for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp.”

Judge Charles Breyer in his ruling granting CCDH’s motion to dismiss.

🚨UPDATE: CCDH has filed a response to Musk’s X Corp’s baseless lawsuit against us.

Musk’s move is a textbook example of a wealthy, unaccountable billionaire using his power to silence his critics.

Here’s what’s happened 🧵
edition.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tec…
Musk is suing us because we exposed how hate & lies skyrocketed on Twitter/X under his leadership, and he can’t disprove our findings.

The lawsuit is a clear case of Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP) aimed to scare us away from doing research on X.

Disinformation & misinformation have been spreading like wildfire on social media in the past few weeks.

We put together 3 resources to help people navigate online spaces in times of crisis 🧵 1⃣During conflicts, scrolling through our timelines can be devastating & enraging. But sharing unverified content only helps to spread misinformation & hate.

Check out some tips to navigate social media and to build information resilience.
counterhate.com/blog/how-to-na…

The Al-Qassam Brigade is the Military wing of Hamas and was the main orchestrator of the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel.

@X, @instagram, Threads, and @Cloudflare are promoting and supporting this proscribed terrorist group.

Here’s how 👇 The Al-Qassam Brigades are promoting their Telegram channel and ‘breadcrumbing’ to other mainstream social media.

These platforms have clear rules in their Terms & Conditions about hosting terrorist groups.

🎂 It’s been one year since @elonmusk officially took over Twitter, now rebranded as X.

Under his leadership, the platform has become more toxic than ever.

From chaos to crisis, here’s a recap of this remarkable year: Musk began his ownership of Twitter by laying off half his staff & slashing teams moderating content.

From there, we saw a string of curious decisions: blue checks were put on sale, banned accounts were reinstated, critical journalists were banned…
dw.com/en/twitter-how…

Social media has become a new front in modern warfare: it amplifies vile rhetoric dehumanizing people & spreads disinformation. It’s both a weapon for propagandists & a business focused on profiting.

But online hate fuels offline violence - and the victims are innocent people. It’s not a coincidence that hate & lies spread like wildfire in times of crisis. Content that provokes strong emotions is boosted by shady algorithms, making it the go-to material for “engagement farmers”.

It doesn’t help when X’s owner recommends antisemitic accounts.

The attack on Israel & its aftermath shows how difficult it can be to navigate social media during conflicts.

Disinformation and horrific images are everywhere, often weaponized as propaganda. Here’s how to avoid falling prey to and spreading false content🧵 Don't share information if you can’t verify it. Keep an eye out for:

➡️Sources: make sure it's from a reliable news or expert account
➡️Dates: check publication dates & context
➡️Don’t share unconfirmed reports & distressing content
➡️Be aware of AI or doctored images

🚨NEW: Twitter/X keeps hosting 86% of 300 posts containing racism, antisemitism & neo-Nazism reported by us.

While @elonmusk tries to silence CCDH, his platform descends into a cesspit of hate. More in @thedailybeast 🧵

TW: violence, racism, antisemitism
thedailybeast.com/center-for-cou… CCDH reported 300 tweets from 100 different accounts to X's moderators - all in clear violation of at least one of the company's policies against hateful conduct.

A week later, 259 of these posts were still up on the platform & 90 accounts remained active.

🚨NEW Polling from CCDH shows that Americans:

➡️Agree that online content causes offline harm
➡️Back our principles for social media reform
➡️Hold platforms & legislators accountable

A 🧵on our new report on CCDH's STAR Framework for social media reform. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a… Harmful content is spreading in digital spaces because we lack effective social media regulation.

Yet the majority of people agree with the 4 pillars of our STAR Framework for social media reform:

✅ Safety by Design
✅ Transparency
✅ Accountability
✅ Responsibility

🚨NEW: CCDH’s latest research reveals AI tools can generate harmful content about eating disorders.

We tested 180 prompts across popular AI text and image generators - including ChatGPT & Midjourney. The findings are deeply concerning. A 🧵washingtonpost.com/technology/202… CCDH found that AI text generators produced harmful eating disorder content in response to 23% of prompts.

🛑 Some of the harmful content included advice on extreme weight loss methods and unhealthy body standards.

🚨@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

🚨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.

🚨 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.

🚨 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 👇

🚨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”.

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

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…