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Data-driven and digital approaches are an increasingly important strand of our research and campaigning. We use a range of techniques to scrape and analyse data from open source and leaked datasets, social media and other online sources.

Article | December 17, 2024
What happened on TikTok around the annulled Romanian presidential election? An investigation and poll

With news that TikTok may have been exploited to influence the Romanian presidential elections, we tested what election content its algorithm recommends
Blog Post | December 12, 2024
Climate of confusion: Bot-like accounts sharing climate disinformation and conspiracies

Bot-like accounts have spread conspiracy theories about climate cults and a global elite, amplifying disinformation on social media
Press Release | December 06, 2024
TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows

TikTok has recommended content for the far-right, pro-Russia candidate in Romania’s presidential run-off election at a rate of more than five times than that of his opponent, a new Global Witness investigation shows.

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Article | December 06, 2024
TikTok fails to enforce its own policies on climate misinformation during COP29
Article | November 27, 2024
TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland
Article | November 04, 2024
Asleep at the wheel: Meta fails to review hate speech on US Senate candidates’ pages in over three days
Article | October 29, 2024
Scores of suspicious accounts on X promote the Azerbaijan government’s messages on COP
Article | October 17, 2024
Before US election, TikTok and Facebook fail to block harmful disinformation. YouTube succeeds
Article | September 23, 2024
Disinformation dollars: How Google earns money from and funds articles that promote climate denial
Article | August 29, 2024
Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries
Blog Post | August 15, 2024
Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy

Briefing Document | July 22, 2020
Out of the shadows
Briefing Document | May 06, 2019
Getting the UK's house in order

Press Release | December 06, 2024
TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows
Press Release | July 31, 2024
Newly identified bot-like accounts are generating billions of impressions, sowing division and spreading disinformation on X
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
Press Release | May 03, 2024
Far right media outlet referred to Advertising Standards Authority after spending thousands on UK climate denial adverts
Press Release | March 21, 2022
New investigation shows Facebook approves ads containing hate speech inciting genocide against the Rohingya
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
Press Release | February 19, 2021
Global Witness reveals fraudulent Libyan Letters of Credit money entering international financial system via London

Report | February 19, 2021
Discredited
Report | October 23, 2015
Jade: Myanmar's "Big State Secret"

Blog Post | December 12, 2024
Climate of confusion: Bot-like accounts sharing climate disinformation and conspiracies
Blog Post | August 15, 2024
Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy
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
Blog Post | June 28, 2024
The climate crisis is here, but climate disinformation still isn’t a priority for tech companies
Blog Post | January 20, 2023
New emissions data presented at Davos should be used to hold Big Oil to account
Blog Post | April 08, 2022
Despite Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine, insurers enable the export of 40 million barrels of Russian oil
Blog Post | September 06, 2021
Chart in focus: Mapping buildings across Africa with AI
Blog Post | July 02, 2021
Chart in focus: New UK planting initiative can't see the forest for the trees

Longform | July 24, 2018
The Companies We Keep