Asleep at the wheel: Meta fails to review hate speech on US Senate candidates’ pages in over three days
As the US election approaches, our latest investigation finds that Meta's moderation systems are struggling to keep pace with hate speech
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Article | November 04, 2024
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Article | October 29, 2024 Scores of suspicious accounts on X promote the Azerbaijan government’s messages on COP
Suspicious social media accounts appear to be engaged in platform manipulation ahead of COP29
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Article | October 17, 2024 Before US election, TikTok and Facebook fail to block harmful disinformation. YouTube succeeds
Just weeks before the US presidential election, Facebook and TikTok approved ads containing harmful election disinformation. This is despite a similar Global Witness investigation published two years earlier that found failures in their moderation systems.
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Article | September 23, 2024 Disinformation dollars: How Google earns money from and funds articles that promote climate denial
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Article | August 29, 2024 Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries
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Blog Post | August 15, 2024 Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy
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Press Release | July 31, 2024 Newly identified bot-like accounts are generating billions of impressions, sowing division and spreading disinformation on X
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Article | July 31, 2024 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
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Article | July 02, 2024 Investigation reveals content posted by bot-like accounts on X has been seen 150 million times ahead of the UK elections
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Press Release | June 30, 2024 Posts from bot-like accounts spreading disinformation and hate viewed more than 150 million times ahead of the UK election
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Blog Post | June 28, 2024 TikTok and YouTube pass new test to detect foreign election disinformation ads in UK, but questions remain about their practices elsewhere
Briefings
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Briefing Document | July 22, 2020 Out of the shadows
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Briefing Document | May 06, 2019 Getting the UK's house in order
Press Releases
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Press Release | July 31, 2024 Newly identified bot-like accounts are generating billions of impressions, sowing division and spreading disinformation on X
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Press Release | June 30, 2024 Posts from bot-like accounts spreading disinformation and hate viewed more than 150 million times ahead of the UK election
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Press Release | May 03, 2024 Far right media outlet referred to Advertising Standards Authority after spending thousands on UK climate denial adverts
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Press Release | March 21, 2022 New investigation shows Facebook approves ads containing hate speech inciting genocide against the Rohingya
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Press Release | March 21, 2022 Rohingya Youth Wait in World’s Largest Refugee Camp to Hear from Facebook, as Platform Fails to Detect Hate Speech Against Them
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Press Release | February 19, 2021 Global Witness reveals fraudulent Libyan Letters of Credit money entering international financial system via London
Reports
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Report | February 19, 2021 Discredited
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Report | October 23, 2015 Jade: Myanmar's "Big State Secret"
Blogs
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Blog Post | August 15, 2024 Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy
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Blog Post | June 28, 2024 TikTok and YouTube pass new test to detect foreign election disinformation ads in UK, but questions remain about their practices elsewhere
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Blog Post | June 28, 2024 The climate crisis is here, but climate disinformation still isn’t a priority for tech companies
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Blog Post | January 20, 2023 New emissions data presented at Davos should be used to hold Big Oil to account
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Blog Post | April 08, 2022 Despite Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine, insurers enable the export of 40 million barrels of Russian oil
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Blog Post | September 06, 2021 Chart in focus: Mapping buildings across Africa with AI
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Blog Post | July 02, 2021 Chart in focus: New UK planting initiative can't see the forest for the trees
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Blog Post | June 03, 2021 Innovative tracking tool trained on fossil gas lobbyists
Extended Reports
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Longform | July 24, 2018 The Companies We Keep
