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Digital Threats to Democracy

Greenwashing and bothsidesism in AI chatbot answers about fossil fuels' role in climate change

22 January 2025
Digital Threats to Democracy

Trump 2.0: Threat to democracy, people and planet

21 January 2025
Digital Threats to Democracy

What happened on TikTok around the annulled Romanian presidential election? An investigation and poll

17 December 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Climate of confusion: Bot-like accounts sharing climate disinformation and conspiracies

12 December 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

On a second attempt, TikTok and YouTube pass test to detect US election disinformation ads

11 December 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok fails to enforce its own policies on climate misinformation during COP29

06 December 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows

06 December 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland

27 November 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok fails to detect disinformation ahead of Irish general election

27 November 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Asleep at the wheel: Meta fails to review hate speech on US Senate candidates’ pages in over three days

04 November 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Scores of suspicious accounts on X promote the Azerbaijan government’s messages on COP

29 October 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

#COP29 targeted by network of accounts pushing Azeri Government messaging

29 October 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Before US election, TikTok and Facebook fail to block harmful disinformation. YouTube succeeds

17 October 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok and Facebook fail to detect harmful disinformation advertisements – putting US election at risk

17 October 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries

29 August 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy

15 August 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

No ifs, many bots? Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X, generating over 4 billion views since the UK general election was called

31 July 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Newly identified bot-like accounts are generating billions of impressions, sowing division and spreading disinformation on X

31 July 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

New investigation reveals political bias on X’s AI chatbot that risks influencing the UK vote

03 July 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Investigation reveals content posted by bot-like accounts on X has been seen 150 million times ahead of the UK elections

02 July 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok and YouTube pass new test to detect foreign election disinformation ads in UK, but questions remain about their practices elsewhere

28 June 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

TikTok approves misleading election disinformation ads for publication in Ireland ahead of EU elections

04 June 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Ticked off: TikTok approves EU elections disinformation ads for publication in Ireland

04 June 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

"Arctic ice is not melting": Far right newspaper promotes climate disinformation on Meta

03 May 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

YouTube approves disinformation ads in India ahead of general election

02 April 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

“Votes will not be counted”: Indian election disinformation ads and YouTube

02 April 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

YouTube and Indian social media platform Koo enable misogynistic hate speech, violating platform policies

01 February 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Letting hate flourish: YouTube and Koo’s lax response to the reporting of hate speech against women in India and the US

01 February 2024
Digital Threats to Democracy

Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube and TikTok approve violent misogynistic hate speech adverts for publication in South Africa

07 December 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

“Female stupidity at its best. They all need to die.”: Violent and sexualised hate speech targeting women approved for publication by social media platforms

07 December 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

How Big Tech platforms are neglecting their non-English language users

30 November 2023
Digital Threats to Democracy

A world of online hate and lies: Mapping our investigations into social media platforms’ failure to tackle hate and disinformation

15 September 2023

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