Andy Burnham starts as the new British Prime Minister at a moment of rare political consensus, where most agree that social media companies have failed to protect children online. Before stepping down as Prime Minister, […]
LONDON, 14th July 2026 — The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) today launched Up Next: Anorexia Algorithm, a new report finding that YouTube continues to recommend harmful eating disorder content to children despite significant […]
The UK Government has announced amendments to the Online Safety Act that strengthen platforms’ obligations during major incidents and public safety crises. The new measures follow years of evidence and advocacy from CCDH. Our research into the Southport riots and more recently the […]
Ten years ago, on 16 June 2016, British Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a far-right extremist radicalized online. Jo was a passionate advocate for a more tolerant, united society. Her murder was a […]
The UK government has announced that social media will be banned for users under 16. This decision reflects what CCDH research has long identified: social media companies consistently fail to make their platforms safe for children. They design platforms that hook kids to their phones while feeding them harmful suicide, self-harm, or […]
Earlier this year, CCDH revealed the extraordinary scale of harm caused by X’s Grok AI image-editing feature. Our analysis estimated that Grok generated approximately 3 million photorealistic sexualized images over an 11-day period, including an estimated 23,000 sexualized images of children. One of the […]
Online Abuse Overall Tripled, and Threats Against President Trump Doubled WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) found that violent threats targeting Members of Congress on Facebook quadrupled after Meta rolled back key […]
“My grandmother changed her entire Medicare plan based on a Facebook ad.” Last year, Marissa’s 79-year-old grandmother, from Las Vegas, clicked on an ad promising her a $250 a month grocery stipend through Medicare. It […]
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificicent Humanity), signals the reality that AI has become societal infrastructure. The future of AI is not just a technical or business question, but a moral and social challenge that […]
Imran Ahmed, Founder & CEO, Center for Countering Digital Hate: The focus of Pope Leo XIV’s first papal encyclical on safeguarding humanity in the time of AI shows the world is waking up to a […]
X has finally committed to introducing stronger protections against illegal hate and terror content, the UK regulator Ofcom announced on May 15. For years, CCDH has been campaigning for the implementation of the Online Safety Act — the tool that makes […]
London, 15th May 2026 — In the aftermath of the attacks in Golders Green on 29 April, X once again became a whirlpool of antisemitic abuse. New research published today by the Center for Countering […]