Archiv: Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)


01.12.2021 - 19:41 [ Center for Countering Digital Hate / filesusr.com ]

Pandemic Profiteers – The business of anti-Vaxx

The Centerfor Countering Digital Hate is a not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation.

Digital technology has changed forever the way we communicate, build relationships, share knowledge, set social standards, and negotiate and assert our society‘s values.

Digital spaces have been colonised and their unique dynamics exploited by fringe movements that instrumentalise hate and misinformation. These movements are opportunistic, agile and confident in exerting influenceand persuading people.Over time these actors, advocating diverse causes – from anti-feminism to ethnic nationalism to denial of scientific consensus – have formed a Digital Counter Enlightenment.

Their trolling, disinformation and skilled advocacy of their causes has resocialised the offline world for the worse.The Center‘s work combines both analysis and active disruption of these networks. CCDH‘s solutions seek to increase the economic, political and social costs of all parts of the infrastructure -the actors, systems and culture -that support, and often profit from hate and misinformation.

01.12.2021 - 19:29 [ Wikipedia ]

Center for Countering Digital Hate

Originally called Stop Funding Fake News, the campaign asks advertisers to stop placing ads on web sites it argues are spreading misinformation („fake news“).[16] It began as a grassroot campaign in March 2019,[17] inspired by the US success of Sleeping Giants which had convinced several advertisers not to advertise on the Breitbart News website.[16] Ted Baker, Adobe Inc., Chelsea FC, eBay and Manchester United were among the 40 brands and charities that the campaign had persuaded to stop advertising on what it called fake news sites.[18][19]

In March 2019, charity Macmillan Cancer Support removed an advertisement from The Canary website after complaints from the campaign and from others.[20] The campaign maintained that The Canary promoted conspiracy theories, defended antisemitism, and published fake news.[21] The Canary said changes to Google and Facebook‘s algorithms and the Stop Funding Fake News campaign led to The Canary downsizing its operations; it said that it was „against the actions of a state, not against Jewish people as an ethnic group“ and that it had been „smeared with accusations of anti-Semitism by those who’ve weaponised the term for political ends“.[19][22][23] Labour Party MP Chris Williamson described the campaign against The Canary as „sinister“.[2

01.12.2021 - 19:21 [ ZDF ]

Die Wahrheit über Desinformation

Das Center zur Bekämpfung von Digitalem Hass (CCDH) hat im Frühjahr 2021 in einer Studie herausgefunden, dass hinter 65 Prozent aller Falschinformationen zu Corona nur zwölf Impfgegner und ihre Organisationen stecken. Und die verdienen offensichtlich viel Geld mit dem Verbreiten von Falschinformationen und dem Verkauf ihrer eigenen Produkte.