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
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Blog Post | December 12, 2024
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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
Despite taking a strong stance against climate misinformation, TikTok is still failing to enforce its own policies against climate denial in video comments
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Article | November 27, 2024 TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland
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Article | November 04, 2024 Asleep at the wheel: Meta fails to review hate speech on US Senate candidates’ pages in over three days
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Article | October 29, 2024 Scores of suspicious accounts on X promote the Azerbaijan government’s messages on COP
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Article | October 17, 2024 Before US election, TikTok and Facebook fail to block harmful disinformation. YouTube succeeds
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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
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 | December 06, 2024 TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows
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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 | December 12, 2024 Climate of confusion: Bot-like accounts sharing climate disinformation and conspiracies
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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
Extended Reports
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Longform | July 24, 2018 The Companies We Keep
