Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | June 20, 2023 Facebook, YouTube and TikTok approve for publication violent xenophobic hate in South Africa Extreme and violent hate-filled adverts were approved for posting on leading social media platforms, according to a new test carried out by Global Witness and the South African public interest law firm Legal Resources Centre Press release | June 12, 2023 Facebook accused of gender discrimination, new research finds bias in advertising algorithm NGOs file complaints in Netherlands and France against Meta Press release | Feb. 23, 2023 Extreme and violent anti-LGBTQ+ hate approved for publication by leading social media platforms Facebook, Tiktok and YouTube allowing hate to be spread on their platforms, new test shows Press release | Jan. 19, 2023 Facebook approves for publication ads with death threats and calls to violence following violent protests in Brazil Just days after violent anti-democratic attacks in Brazil, Facebook approved ads for publication that called on people to take up arms and storm government buildings, made explicit death threats against Lula supporters and their children, and described the election as stolen Press release | Jan. 10, 2023 Brazil insurrection: Social media platforms must act to stop spread of disinformation and calls to violence Social media firms must immediately implement emergency “break the glass” measures to protect Brazilian democracy Press release | Dec. 1, 2022 Facebook failed to detect death threats against election workers ahead of US midterm elections New investigation exposes how Facebook approved ads inciting violence against US election workers, while YouTube and TikTok were able to detect and reject these ads Press release | Nov. 3, 2022 Meta approves ads promoting manifesto of far-right terrorist Breivik in Norway Meta greenlights hate-filled Facebook ads Press release | Oct. 21, 2022 Facebook and TikTok fail to block deceptive ads with blatant US midterms disinformation Major social media platforms approved disinformation in ads test Press release | Oct. 20, 2022 After repeated warnings YouTube and Facebook continue to approve blatant disinformation on their platforms ahead of tense Brazilian presidential run off YouTube and Facebook are still allowing disinformation related to the Brazilian Presidential election to be published, despite repeated warnings Press release | Sept. 14, 2022 In run up to tense Brazilian Presidential vote, Facebook still failing to prevent spread of election disinformation A month after Global Witness exposes failings, half of tested disinformation ads still being approved Show Previous 10 Show Next 10
