Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries
X’s AI chatbot Grok responds with disinformation and toxic content when asked about political elections in a Global Witness investigation
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Article | August 29, 2024
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Blog Post | August 15, 2024 Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy
The closure of Meta’s transparency tool CrowdTangle is the latest move by social media companies to restrict access to data for researchers, journalists and policymakers.
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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
Partisan bot-like accounts amplify divisive content 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
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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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Article | May 03, 2024 'Arctic ice is not melting’: Far right newspaper promotes climate disinformation on Meta
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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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Blog Post | January 20, 2023 New emissions data presented at Davos should be used to hold Big Oil to account
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
