#Centre for Countering Digital Hate

[thepastisalreadywritten]

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#Prince William #Prince of Wales #Princess of Wales #Catherine Princess of Wales #Catherine Middleton #Kate Middleton #British Royal Family #cancer #chemotherapy #conspiracy theories #fake news #social media #misinformation #disinformation #Imran Ahmed #Centre for Countering Digital Hate #algorithms #hate #negative emotions #trolls #public awareness #Facebook #Tiktok #X #Instagram #Meta #WhatsApp

[gwydionmisha]

#Elon Musk #Twitter #X Corp #Centre for Countering Digital Hate #News

[thethirdromana]

There's a lot of anti-Romani racism in Dracula, and today's entry marks the start of it.

So I thought it might be a good opportunity to highlight some organisations that are working to promote Roma rights, and some ways, alongside donating, that you might be able to support them.

The European Roma Rights Centre carries out strategic litigation to support Roma rights, as well as doing advocacy and research. You can sign up to volunteer for them here; one volunteer-run project currently live is called Challenging Digital Antigypsyism, and focuses on identifying and reporting hate speech on social media platforms.

On a similar theme, Minority Rights Group International has a campaign toolkit on countering cyberhate against Roma. The focus of the campaign is Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

In the UK, Friends, Families and Travellers works to end racism and discrimination against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people and to protect the right to pursue a nomadic way of life. If you're in the UK, you can ask your MP to sign their pledge card. And if you witness discriminatory comments in politics, you can report that here.

The Roma Support Group, based in London, works with Eastern European Roma refugees and migrants. They have a number of volunteer roles for people with regular time to offer.

#dracula daily #feel free to reblog with suggestions of other organisations and campaigns #let's turn Bram Stoker's prejudice into something positive

[thewales]

The Telegraph:

The Princess of Wales has been “revictimised” by social media trolls who have publicly blamed her for not disclosing her cancer diagnosis sooner, a leading expert in countering online extremism has said.

Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said conspiracy theories about the Princess had already been amplified on social media platforms to reach “millions and millions of people”.

Even after her personal video explaining that she was undergoing treatment for cancer in the form of preventative chemotherapy, social media users further accused her of allowing the conspiracy theories to spread by not speaking out sooner.

#the princess of wales

[yihan9]

23 September 2022

Discussions on a major forum for incels are growing more violent, a new study by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has warned.

The CCDH research suggests that, on average, a post about rape was published to the forum every 29 minutes.

For 18 months, researchers from CCDH's new Quant Lab used machine learning to help analyse in excess of a million posts on the forum.

The report does not name the forum - to avoid giving it publicity - but says it is the largest online, with more than 17,000 members and 2.6 million visits a month. Women are barred.

The forum is one of a number of online incel communities "promoting a hateful and violent ideology linked to the murder or injury of 100 people in the last 10 years, mostly women", the researchers write.

To the CCDH researchers' alarm, violent rhetoric on the forum increased significantly during the study, with posts mentioning incel mass murders rising by 59% between 2021 and 2022.

The report also considers users' support for acts of sexual violence.Its analysis suggests that the clear majority of posts about rape were supportive, similarly "discussions of paedophilia show 53% of posters are supportive".

Mr Ahmed (CCDH chief executive) fears there may be many unreported acts of violence that can be linked to the incel movement."It's almost certain that offences have been committed, that women have been harmed, and we haven't attributed that to incels in the past because we focused on the mass attacks.

"We've also got a focus on the wider threat to women and girls we discovered in this country."

#radical feminism #I FUCKING HATE MEN #radfems do interact

[na19love]

Cruel British troll who used Chinese social media platform TikTok to cash in on lurid Kate claims is unmasked at last - after his hurtful claims about the Princess of Wales spread across the world

Paul Condron, who hides behind an anonymous TikTok handle, spewed deeply hurtful and false stories about Kate. His cruel claims were shared to millions around the world after being reposted by celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton.

The Mail was able to track down the toxic troll to his girlfriend's two-bedroom home in South-West London. Condron refused to say how much money he had made and said he was 'not fussed' about peddling the wild conspiracies online, before retreating and refusing to answer any further questions.

A neighbour told the Mail that Mr Condron spends almost all his time at home and was shocked when shown the posts.

Social media algorithms have massively amplified conspiracy theories about Kate. They became almost normalised in the UK in the past few weeks, before her poignant video about her cancer diagnosis. 

Imran Ahmed, head of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said Condron was a prime example of a new breed of 'conspiracy spivs' who take advantage of social media algorithms to 'lie for profit'.

The truth is that they have victimised a young woman who is recovering from surgery.

'They have been victimising her and revictimising her, and then blaming her for not being able to counteract their sort of nuclear-grade disinformation.'

Condron and TikTok split 35 per cent of the money from each paid subscriber, with the rest going to Google or Apple.

FIND AND SHAME THEM ALL!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13231713/Kate-Middleton-conspiracy-theorist-tik-tok-troll-unmasked.html

#british royal family #brf #royal family #kate middleton #catherine princess of wales #princess of wales #princess catherine

[rapeculturerealities]

Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum

For 18 months, researchers from CCDH's new Quant Lab used machine learning to help analyse in excess of a million posts on the forum.

The report does not name the forum - to avoid giving it publicity - but says it is the largest online, with more than 17,000 members and 2.6 million visits a month. Women are barred.

The forum is one of a number of online incel communities "promoting a hateful and violent ideology linked to the murder or injury of 100 people in the last 10 years, mostly women", the researchers write.

According to one definition, incels are men who are "unable to find sexual partners despite wanting them, and who express hate towards people whom they blame for this".

#Incels #Misogyny #Sexism #Online #Technology

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Petrol bomb attacker

A man suspected of carrying out a petrol bomb attack at a migrant processing centre in Dover appears to have posted anti-Muslim rants on social media.

Andrew Leak, aged 66 and from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, is believed to have thrown two or three incendiary devices from his car at the Western Jet Foil site on Sunday morning.

Two staff members from the centre sustained minor injuries. Leak killed himself in his vehicle in the car park of a nearby garage later that day.

The investigation into the firebombing attack is being led by counter-terrorism police, and officers believe it was fueled by "some form of hate-filled grievance". A search has been carried out at a property in the High Wycombe area and "a number of items of interest were recovered, including digital media devices", Thames Valley Police said.

It added there was "currently nothing to suggest the man involved was working alongside anyone else".

Social media posts shared on Andrew Leak's Facebook page contain anti-Muslim sentiments and complaints about people claiming benefits if they do not speak English.

Leak also shared an anti-royal family post, saying: "Prince Charles says he's going to house Ukrainian refugees in one of his properties that belong to the British people, what about soldiers and members of the public sleeping in doorways? Disgrace. End the royal family now."

One of Leak's neighbours, Allan Abbott, 61, told Sky News: "Andy would bend over backwards for anyone. I was shocked. He was always cheerful, always singing. He had rheumatoid arthritis and cancer."  Mr Abbott recalled how he and Leak were sitting in a garden during the summer and Leak was "so upset" after a migrant boat sank.

Mr Abbott said Leak questioned "why doesn't the British government help them", adding his neighbour was "distressed about the whole thing".

He went on to say that Leak told him a few months ago that his benefits had been "cut in half" and he had to sell some of his clothes.

Following Sunday's attack, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit was called to ensure there were no further threats. The centre is where people arriving into Dover via small boats are taken for the first stage of their asylum processing.

#Petrol bomb attacker #Andrew Leak #true crime #crime #terrorists

[mariacallous]

Speakers from Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN’s digital rights programme and Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net project said in a joint X Space event on December 21 that digital rights violations increased in the region this year.

“We saw a rise in different types of violations. This year, we determined 1,427 different types of violations compared to last year’s 782,” Ivana Jeremic, Balkan Insight’s Deputy Editor and one of the editors of BIRN’s recent BIRN Digital Rights Violations Report, said.

Jeremic added that the most common digital rights violations were hate speech and discrimination, digital manipulation and computer fraud.

“Some of the key findings were that regional and international crises increased digital rights violations in the region, such as the war in Ukraine and the ongoing Kosovo-Serbia dispute, which led to a lot of misinformation but also to attacks based on someone’s ethnicity,” Jeremic said.

Jeremic highlighted the need for effective legislation to counter digital violations that most countries in the region lack.

Hamdi Firat Buyuk, a Balkan Insight journalist and one of the editors of BIRN’s recent BIRN Digital Rights Violations Report, said Turkey is using draconian laws to target free speech. “Turkey is one of the countries that passed draconian laws and regulations to target freedom of speech and internet freedoms,” Buyuk said.

Gurkan Ozturan, from the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and Turkey country author at the Freedom on the Net report of Freedom House, said Turkey was regressing fast in terms of digital rights.

“Unfortunately, I am here to talk about one of the first countries in terms of regression in the field of digital rights and liberties in the past decade” Ozturan said, recalling that only a month after Turkey’s disinformation law was passed in October 2022, authorities limited access to social media platforms following a terror attack.

“Then there were earthquakes [in February] and then the election period [in May] which brought Turkey further down in Freedom House’s internet freedoms index. That was a horrible year,” Ozturan said, underlining access blocks, misinformation campaigns and data leaks from government agencies on citizens’ private data.

Tijana Uzelac, a BIRN Serbia journalist and country monitor of the BIRN Digital Rights Violations Report, said there were more than 100 registered digital rights violation cases in the reporting period from September 2022 to September 2023.

“The most frequent targets of these violations were citizens in more than 50 cases,” Uzelac said and added that the majority of violations in Serbia fell under “threatening content and endangering security”.

Uzelac said a massive school shooting in Serbia had also marked the year. “The number of digital rights violations spiked drastically in May after two mass school shootings in Belgrade and in villages near Mladenovac,” Uzelac added.

Mila Bajic, from SHARE Foundation and Serbia country author at the Freedom on the Net report of Freedom House, said the election campaigns provided an example of the climate in online media in Serbia.

“The online media ecosystem is essentially just an extension of the traditional media and the majority of the things we have been seeing is everything we can see on the public broadcasters and in the printed tabloid media. It is essentially copy-pasted to the online environment, which means that the online environment is very biased and in favour of the ruling majority [led by President Aleksandar Vucic],” Bajic said.

Bajic underlined that a lot of intimidation tactics online were deployed against journalists and civil society members, including an attempted spyware attack on civil society using Pegasus-like spyware. “That was thankfully not a successful attack but it does indicate that it was a state-sponsored attack,” Bajic said.

Azem Kurtic, Balkan Insight’s Bosnia correspondent and country monitor of the BIRN Digital Rights Violations Report. In Bosnia, said: “The most common victims [in Bosnia] are unfortunately citizens due to a quite specific ethnic, historic and current political context. For instance, during the commemorations of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, you saw a surge in hate speech and discrimination but also genocide denial, which is a criminal offence in Bosnia.”

Kurtic added that an online femicide had also shocked the country and the region. “We had a shocking femicide in August when a man killed his ex-wife in a livestream on Instagram. The video stayed online for more than three hours and it was seen more than 70,000 times,” Kurtic added.

Cathryn Grothe, from Freedom House, underlined a new emerging threat: the malicious use of Artificial Intelligence, AI.

“One of our big findings is generative use of AI supercharges online disinformation space. For decades governments have been deploying methods to manipulate online discussion, whether through pay commentators or automated Twitter bots or trolls or things like that kind, or more of those traditional forms of spreading disinformation, and with the growing power of AI tools those tactics are able to be automated and they are able to spread so much further,” Grothe said.

The joint X space organised by BIRN and Freedom House can be listened to on this link.

More about digital rights violations in the Balkans can be found at BIRN’s Digital Rights Violations Report 2022-2023, “Digital Rights In A Time Of Crisis: Authoritarianism, Political Tension And Weak Legislation Boost Violations” and in Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net 2023 report, “The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence”.

[meret118]

A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate said Google had profited from adverts placed for so-called “crisis pregnancy centres” alongside searches for terms like “abortion clinic near me.”

[starknet-technologies]

#google

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[openapocalypse]

Britain First are an unambiguous hate cult, and the fact they can constantly spew hatred against Muslims, migrants and other vulnerable people groups, but it is strictly verboten to call them 'white trash' (i.e. trashy people who embrace the white identity), shows that Elon Musk's Twitter is every bit as much of a hate-fest as people were warning about, such as the media and the Centre for Countering Digital Hate.

So, in case anyone wondering what's going to change about my approach to Twitter, after all of this...

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

I will continue fighting for a fairer and a freer world, one where the white identity is no longer unclaimable, but utterly unthinkable!

#Publish0x #Twitter #Elon Musk #Social Media #Britain First #Fascists #Anti fascists

[avahawks]

Internet Trolls

Much like cyberbullying, internet trolls go out of their way to make other users upset or to provoke a reaction in order to get attention. Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, says there are two types of internet trolls. The first targets public figures with lots of followers. The hateful comment is then shown to a bigger audience when the public figure, or their followers, give a reaction, giving the troll the attention they want. The second are people who have a psychological trait called 'negative social potency,' meaning they enjoy causing harm to others. There are many reasons why people troll but Dr. Mark Griffiths, Professor of Behavioural Addiction at Nottingham Trent University, says “most people troll others for either revenge, for attention seeking, for boredom, and for personal amusement.” If you ever find yourself being trolled, the best thing to do is just ignore them; better yet, block them.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfmkrj6#:~:text=Trolls%20are%20people%20who%20leave,cause%20trouble%20or%20upset%20someone.

#MCO335

[mondonews]

TikTok suggests eating disorder and self-harm content to new teen accounts within minutes, study finds

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Further research by Sky News also found that eating disorder content was recommended to users through TikTok’s suggested search function. A study into TikTok’s video recommendation algorithm has found it suggests eating disorder and self-harm content to some new teen accounts within minutes. Research from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) saw one account shown suicide content within…

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[bronva]

Hate speech on Twitter is rising under Musk, warn campaigners

Hate speech on Twitter is rising under Musk, warn campaigners

Twitter is radically reforming under the guidance of the world’s richest man (Credit: Reuters) Hate speech on Twitter is rising under Elon Musk’s ownership, online safety campaigners have said. That’s despite the billionaire’s claims it has been declining. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) said Mr Musk’s recent tweet suggesting hate speech impressions are down by a third was…

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