Center for Countering Digital Hate

🚨 NEW: Instagram failed to act on 93% of the abusive comments targeting high-profile US women candidates we reported. Meta must step up to protect women and public officials ahead of the US election. CCDH reported 1,000 abusive comments targeting 5 Republican and 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 and racist abuse, death and r*pe threats. We also found that: 🛑 Vice President Kamala Harris is one of the targets of the abusive comments we reported to Instagram. A week later, the platform had failed to act on 92% of these comments. 🛑 77% of the 1,000 abusive comments we reported contained gendered terms, such as “b*tch", “r*pe” and “wh*re”. 🛑 From the 560K comments we collected from women candidates’ posts, 1 in 25 is considered “highly likely” to be toxic by Google’s Perspective API. By allowing abusive and violent attacks targeting women candidates, Instagram is failing to enforce its Community Guidelines. The platform must enforce its guidelines and protect public officials. Lawmakers must hold Instagram accountable. 📢 Violence and abuse have no place in our politics. Our new research in CNBC ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eK_8HEPv #Instagram #Meta #WomenInPolitics

🗳 X’s Community Notes are letting misleading claims about the US election go unchecked, undermining election integrity and democracy as a whole.     To help fix this:     ✔ X must invest in safety and transparency teams instead of relying solely on user-generated fact checks.   ✔ Regulators must ensure Community Notes are effective and tech companies are held accountable for the lies & misinformation on their platforms.     Find out more 👇 #ElonMusk #USElection #Misinformation

📢 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY: We're looking for a Senior Press Manager to join CCDH's growing US team. If you are passionate about making the internet safer and have a track record of securing high profile coverage to generate awareness, we want to hear from you. Apply today👇 https://lnkd.in/eyhKqF_T hashtag#Press hashtag#HiringNow hashtag#JobAlert

🚨Community Notes fall short for democracy. Our research found that X’s Community Notes moderation system is failing to label misinformation related to the US election. Our research in @Reuteurs 👇 https://lnkd.in/ezrECqAk

📢 We’re looking for a motivated, purpose-driven Senior US Policy Associate to advance our goals for tech policy reform. This role will support the development of CCDH’s policy positions on the Hill and interface with decision-makers driving the debate on tech reform. If you are passionate about advancing transformative social media reforms for a healthier society, we want to hear from you! Apply here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gEPCECYz #Policy #Hiring #JobAlert

"The marginal cost of the production [and distribution] of a piece of disinformation has been reduced to zero by generative AI... You’ve got a perpetual bulls–t machine. That’s quite worrying." Our CEO, Imran Ahmed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 👇 https://lnkd.in/gxRCdhJt

📢 Musk's X is letting misleading claims about the US election run unchecked. Posts in our sample that didn't display available Community Notes had 2.2 billion views. Our new research in Fortune ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/eSzGF7qJ #USElection #ElonMusk #Misinformation

Our researchers found that X's Community Notes are failing to counter misleading claims about the US election.    We identified 79 posts promoting the false claim that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen without Community Notes. They all had proposed fact-checks that aren't being shown to X’s users.  #USElection #Misinformation #ElonMusk 

🤖 NEW: CCDH research found that convincing AI-generated images of political endorsements made by fake Americans are getting MILLIONS of interactions on Facebook ahead of the US election. We found: ✔️Unlabeled posts with AI-generated images with political text behind them accrued 2.4 million likes, comments & shares ✔️Deepfakes posted by pages with administrators OUTSIDE of the US accrued 1.5 million likes & shares ✔️Unlabeled posts with AI-generated images with political text were shared more than 476k times since July 1st ✔️Facebook is failing to implement its AI policy to detect and label images that are AI-generated. Meta’s platform must keep its promise to label AI-generated images ahead of the US election. Social media platforms must stop enabling AI-generated election disinformation. Democracy is at stake. Find out more in Axios 👇 https://lnkd.in/dSrtBiRQ #USElections #ElectionMisinformation #Deepfakes

📢 We analyzed a sample of accurate Community Notes & found that 74% aren't being shown to users. Democracy is too fragile to let these flimsy tools go unchallenged. Our new findings in The Associated Press 👇 https://lnkd.in/eCuECfM7 #ElonMusk #Misinformation #Democracy