CCDH

The Owner Amplifier: Musk spreading violent anti-migrant narratives on X

Musk amplified anti-migrant narratives; CCDH found 3,930 replies containing calls for violence.

Safety Off: threats and abuse surged after Meta's policy changes

Analysis of ~8M Facebook comments on Members of Congress found violent threats quadrupled after Meta's Jan 2025 rollback.

X Turns Jewish Grief into a Target, Again

130 hateful replies to British Jewish figures after the Golders Green attack, all apparently violating X rules, were left up.

Scambook: How Meta helps Medicare scammers target seniors

Meta earned ~$14.3M from deceptive scam ads (including deepfakes) targeting seniors, violating its policies.

X-rated: X recommends explicit content to 13-year-olds

Test 13-year-old accounts: 8 in 10 searches returned explicit content and 30% of For You posts were explicit.

Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children

After a one-click edit feature launched, Grok generated an estimated 3M sexualized images (including ~23,000 of children) in 11 days.

Hate for Sale: Instagram helps sellers of hateful merchandise

Instagram and e-commerce platforms amplify and monetize racist/antisemitic 'hate merch,' reaching a billion views.

Antisemitic abuse on X after Manchester Synagogue attack

Antisemitic abuse and calls for violence flooded X following the attack, largely left unremoved.

Viral antisemitic posts about Charlie Kirk assassination amass 139m views on X

Antisemitic conspiracies about Kirk's killing reached ~140M views; no viral post carried a Community Note.

A Home for Hate: How Antisemitism Thrives on X

Using AI tools, CCDH found X hosts and profits from antisemitic content violating its own policies.

X fails to act on 97% of calls for violence against migrants or Muslims

A year after the riots, X left up 97% of reported violent anti-migrant/anti-Muslim content.

Extreme Weather: false claims spread unchecked

Social media companies let false claims about the LA Fires and Hurricane Helene spread unchecked.

Fuelling Hate: One year after the UK riots, X still lets abuse spread

X is still failing to remove rule-violating anti-Muslim/anti-migrant calls for violence a year after the riots.

Banned But Not Gone: YouTube profits from Andrew Tate's misogyny

YouTube still hosts and monetizes Andrew Tate's misogynistic content despite banning his account.

X posts claiming European leaders took cocaine reach 135M views

50 posts with baseless drug claims about Starmer/Macron/Merz got 135M views, with no Community Notes.

More Transparency and Less Spin: Analyzing Meta's policy changes

Meta's 2025 policy rollback could stop 97% of enforcement in key areas including hate speech.

YouTube's Anorexia Algorithm

YouTube recommends eating-disorder and self-harm videos to accounts modelled on young girls (UK and EU editions followed Feb 2025).

Musk's Political Posts

Musk's own political posts drew more views than all US campaign ads in X's disclosure dataset.

Facebook's AI Failure

AI-generated images of fake Americans making political endorsements got millions of interactions before the US election.

Rated Not Helpful: How X's Community Notes system falls short

Community Notes failed to counter false/misleading US election claims, with proposed notes rarely shown.

Grok AI: A deepfake disinformation disaster for democracy

X's Grok accepted all 60 tested prompts to generate misleading US election images.

Social media's role in the UK riots (OSA amendments)

Policy paper arguing platforms (especially X and Telegram) fueled the riots via online hate/lies; proposes new regulatory powers.

X ran ads on five accounts pushing lies and hate during UK riots

X placed major brands' ads beside disinformation accounts that amassed 260M views after Southport.

Abusing Women in Politics: How Instagram is failing women

Instagram failed to act on 93% of reported abusive comments (including death/rape threats) targeting US women politicians.

Musk misleading election claims viewed 1.2bn times on X

Musk's false/misleading US election claims got ~1.2 billion views, none carrying a Community Note.

Musk's X helps Tommy Robinson rack up 434 million views during UK riots

X amplified Tommy Robinson's disinformation to 434M+ views during the UK riots with virtually no fact-checks.

Trump's assassination attempt conspiracies

Conspiracies about the assassination attempt got 215M+ views on X; 95% of posts had no fact-check.

Antisemitic Admins: Meta's failure to moderate large Facebook Groups

Meta failed to act on admins spreading anti-Jewish hate to 300K+ Facebook Group members.

Hate Pays: How X accounts are exploiting the Israel-Gaza conflict

10 X accounts pushing anti-Jewish/anti-Muslim/anti-Palestinian hate grew ~4x faster after October 7.

Digital Disparities: the global battle for reproductive rights on social media

Meta restricts reproductive-care information in Africa/Asia/Latin America while allowing anti-choice misinformation ads.

TikTok removes views from hashtags

TikTok obscured hashtag view counts, reducing transparency for researchers studying harmful content.

The New Climate Denial

'New' denial narratives attacking climate science/solutions made up 70% of climate-denial content on YouTube in 2023.

TikTok's Toxic Trade

Videos glorifying steroid-like drugs got 587M+ US views in three years, some linking directly to sellers.

X Content Moderation Failure

X still hosted ~86% of 300 reported extreme-hate posts a week after they were reported.

Twitter fails to act on 99% of Twitter Blue accounts tweeting hate

Twitter failed to act on 99% of hateful posts by Blue subscribers and appeared to algorithmically boost them.

YouTube's Climate Denial Dollars

200 climate-disinformation videos (half breaching Google policy) drew 73.8M views with ads placed against them.

State Hate: How Iran's Press TV Uses Social Media to Promote Anti-Jewish Hatred

With ADL: Iran's state broadcaster weaponizes social platforms to spread antisemitic conspiracy content.

Toxic Twitter: How Twitter Makes Millions from Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric

Anti-LGBTQ+ 'grooming' rhetoric jumped 119% under Musk while Twitter profited from ads placed against it.

Horizon Worlds Exposed

Minors were routinely harassed and exposed to adult content in Meta's flagship VR social network.

Toxic Twitter: bringing back banned accounts generates ad revenue

Previously banned accounts reinstated by Musk are generating millions in ad revenue for the platform.