Posted on 08/01/2023 1:56:18 AM PDT by RandFan
@X
Free expression is fundamental to a healthy functioning global society – and if it’s taken away, it’s almost impossible to get back. That’s why we will continue to stand up for people’s rights, including the over half a billion of you who turn to our platform continually.
Free expression and platform safety are not at odds. Despite our continued progress, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims about X and actively working to prevent public dialogue.
That’s why X has filed a legal claim against the CCDH and its backers.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Pardon the language...
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CCDH are very secretive about their backers. a hint they may sometimes partner with FakeNewsMSM.
Center for Countering Digital Hate
Our leadership team
CCDH US and UK employ a large team of people who collaborate together to fulfill the shared mission of both organizations. Staff members of both organizations are experts in their fields and have a range of diverse backgrounds from the public sector, NGO’s and the ***media.
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Our funders
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) that is funded by philanthropic trusts and members of the public. If you or your organization wish to help fund our cause, please contact us.
https://counterhate.com/about/
below it seems they were partnering with NBC?
InfluenceWatch: Center for Countering Digital Hate
In June 2020, the group launched ***a campaign that was promoted by NBC’s News Verification Unit*** against American conservative commentary website The Federalist, seeking to have Google ban the site from its advertising platform.
CCDH has ties to the left-wing British Labour Party. The group’s founder, Imran Ahmed, is a former advisor to Labour Members of Parliament Hilary Benn and Angela Eagle. Board member Kristy McNeill is a former adviser to former Labour Party British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and former board member Morgan McSweeney resigned from the board to become chief of staff to Labour Party leader Keir Starmer...
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-countering-digital-hate/
of course, they’d be part of the “climate” mob:
Wikipedia: Center for Countering Digital Hate
...is a British non-profit organisation with offices in London and Washington, DC...
Campaign against climate change deniers
In November 2021, a study by the CCDH identified “ten fringe publishers” that together were responsible for nearly 70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook said the percentage was overstated and called the study misleading. The “toxic ten” publishers were Breitbart News, The Western Journal, Newsmax, Townhall, Media Research Center, The Washington Times, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, RT, and The Patriot Post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Countering_Digital_Hate
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.
Thank you yes, the ties to Labour in the UK tells you all you need to know.
Good digging. I didn’t know about the Federalist.
Thank you!
Reading....
A layer of the onion needs to be peeled. Those that are accused of climate change denial, purveyors of hate speech, etc. are often making arguments against some modern variation of Marxism. It’s hideous to think the Earth’s climate doesn’t change, just like it’s hideous to think man has caused it or can do anything about climate change. Climate change is being used to implement government control over most aspects of life. Individual freedoms have to be eliminated accomplish that.
Go, Johnny E(lon)!
Rollerball.
great find. thanks.
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/
Since CCDH sounds like another ADL/SPLC operation no judge will allow CCDH to be sued.
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