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  • Henry Peck / Dec. 20, 2022

    Exposing social media platforms’ failures to protect their users

    Since March we’ve been testing the ability of social media companies to detect hate speech and misinformation, exposing stark differences in these platforms’ abilities to enforce their own policies

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  • Rosie Sharpe / Nov. 11, 2022

    Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter highlights the need for government regulation of social media companies

    The Digital Services Act enters into force later this month and heralds a new era for tech accountability

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  • Aug. 24, 2022

    Online disinformation threatens the integrity of the Brazilian presidential election

    At such a critical moment for the climate and Brazilian democracy, Big Tech companies must take urgent action to tackle election-related disinformation on their platforms

    Demonstration against Brazilian President Bolsonaro in Sao Paulo
  • Ava Lee / Aug. 3, 2022

    Is Facebook Putting Kenya’s Democracy At Risk?

    In July a Global Witness and Foxglove investigation revealed that Facebook is failing to detect hate on its platform in Kenya. Then a Kenyan Government watchdog agency announced Facebook had seven days to tackle this issue or risk being shut down

    Social media use ahead of Kenyan election, April 2022
  • Nienke Palstra / July 5, 2022

    Brussels takes on Big Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly

    The Digital Services Act is the most sweeping set of rules to regulate tech companies anywhere in the world. Our take on what these rules do, and don’t, achieve

    An activist of environmental NGO Avaaz wearing a mask depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a banner reading "Regulate me" during an action marking the release of the Digital Services Act, outside the European Commission
  • May 27, 2022

    What is climate disinformation?

    Climate disinformation is hindering our ability to combat the gravest threat of our time

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  • Nienke Palstra / Sept. 21, 2021

    Spotlight on Big Tech’s lobbying in Brussels

    We've launched a new Twitter bot, @EUTechWatch, to monitor Big Tech’s access to EU officials

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  • April 15, 2021

    Do people really want personalised ads online?

    Our new polling of social media users in Germany and France reveals people are uneasy about the way they are profiled and targeted with ads.

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  • Naomi Hirst / Feb. 5, 2021

    One month on from the insurrection at the Capitol, our view on how to redeem social media

    The online repercussions of the US Capitol riots put the power and reach of Big Tech in the spotlight. We now need action to tackle the platforms' role in enabling political division and extremism

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  • Rosie Sharpe & Sam Leon / Nov. 30, 2020

    Facebook banned new political ads in the week before the US election. We took a closer look

    What effect did the ban on new political ads actually have in the lead up to the election? The short answer suggested by our analysis: hardly any at all

    Trump and Biden presidential debate October 2020
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