Ever since a fake grassroots organization from the United Kingdom named the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) was publicly called out by Senator Josh Hawley (R) on July 18th, 2021 for being a "foreign dark money group," a growing chorus of inquiring voices has been asking for full disclosure on who is funding this foreign influence operation to suppress the constitutionally protected speech of American citizens on matters of life and death significance.
That funding information is finally becoming available and there are at least nine, mostly foreign, and ostensibly charitable NGOs pouring money into them. This article will briefly review the history of CCDH's campaign, and end with a list of their funders. This is not an exclusive list, and is intended only for other researchers to continue to analyze and compile data further revealing this mostly still invisible, yet clearly powerful and malignant network.
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noticed BBC connections in Paul Hamlyn Foundation (Ball & Salz) which prompted me to post this recent, extraordinary BBC Verify attack on Tik Tok for not 100 percent following the official “climate” narrative:
30 June: BBC: The climate change-denying TikTok post that won’t go away
By Marco Silva & Maryam Ahmed, BBC Verify
Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial. But a BBC investigation tracked one video that has been viewed millions of times - and found the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform.
If you searched for “climate change” on TikTok in recent months, you might have come across a video featuring Dan Peña, a self-styled “business success coach” with thousands of followers on social media...
Under new community guidelines unveiled by TikTok last April, content that “undermines well-established scientific consensus” on climate change will not be allowed on the platform.
And yet, the clip depicting Mr Peña is far from an isolated occurrence: the BBC identified 365 different videos in English denying the existence of man-made climate change...
TikTok itself deems climate change denial to be “harmful misinformation”. Using tools available to any TikTok user, we reported those videos to the platform under that category. We then waited for at least a day to find out whether they would be taken down.
The company did not remove almost 95% of the posts we flagged up - videos that, having been watched almost 30 million times, appeared to be attracting significant attention.
In a statement to the BBC, TikTok said it is working “to empower informed climate discussions”, and that it is working with fact-checkers to tackle misinformation.
The company also pointed out that, when users search for videos about climate change, they are being shown a link to a United Nations website on the topic...
“Rules become irrelevant, if they’re not applied consistently, accurately and fairly,” says Jennie King, head of climate research and policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a UK counter-extremism think tank.
Ms King said this emboldens people to try “to game the system even more, because they know they can ultimately act with impunity”.
Paul Scully MP, the minister for technology and the digital economy, told the BBC that the government’s proposed Online Safety Bill would guarantee that the responsibility of social media platforms to tackle disinformation was “taken seriously”.
After we shared the findings of our investigation with TikTok, 65 accounts that had been posting wrong information about climate change in breach of the platform’s guidelines were permanently removed.
The company also removed most of the remaining videos that were still online - including several that featured Dan Peña’s 2017 talk.
However, at the time of writing, several copies of the clip featuring Dan Peña describing climate change as the “greatest fraud” can still be found on the app.
At the Met Office, Dr McNeall welcomes TikTok’s efforts against misinformation, but he questions whether this is a battle the company can win...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66023797
who the hell are BBC to be deciding who can report what?
2 June: Conservative Woman UK: The climate scaremongers: BBC Verify should investigate the BBC
By Paul Homewood
Roger Harrabin, the BBC’s former Energy and Environment Analyst, let the cat out of the bag last year when he tweeted that the BBC has long been trying to ‘knit climate change into the fabric of the daily news’. In other words, try to link every bit of bad weather, famine or other disaster to global warming, in the most surreptitious way possible. Little wonder that only 44 per cent of Brits trust the BBC’s journalists to be truthful.
The above examples are only the tip of the iceberg. It would be a full-time job for Marianna Spring and her team to monitor all the disinformation the BBC spews out.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-bbc-verify-should-investigate-the-bbc/