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Who is Imran Ahmed, CCDH?

posted 10 months ago by Satan2016 (23682)
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He is from the UK but lives in Washington DC. The name is Indo-Persian?
He wrote "The New Serfdom: The Triumph of Conservative Ideas and How to Defeat Them..."

The anti-semitism he refers to is from the Labour Party. Plenty of it from Arabs too.
Wonder what he thinks about he Wuhan Virus? Hate speech by Muslims?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/imran-ahmed-ccdh

Imran Ahmed is the founder and CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate US/UK.

He regularly appears on the media and in documentaries as an expert in how bad actors use digital spaces to harm others and benefit themselves, as well as how and why bad platforms allow them to do so.

Imran was inspired to start the Center after seeing the rise of antisemitism on the left in the United Kingdom and the murder of his colleague, Jo Cox MP, by a white supremacist, who had been radicalized in part online, during the EU Referendum in 2016.

https://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/about-us/people/imran-ahmed

Imran Ahmed is the founder and Chief Executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a not-for-profit NGO that studies online hate and misinformation and develops solutions for countering them, across fields including medical misinformation and climate denial. The CCDH was launched publicly in September, and over the past two months has focused its work on tackling coronavirus misinformation, publishing the government-backed guidance, #DontSpreadTheVirus, for what to do if one encounters misinformation online.

[–] Satan2016 (23682) 10 months ago

X Corp. sues non-profit accusing Elon Musk's Twitter of fueling online hate speech: 'Scare campaign'

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/x-corp-sues-non-profit-accusing-elon-musks-twitter-fueling-online-hate-speech-scare-campaign

In the new federal lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, X Corp. categorized how the defendants Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc. and Ltd., described as "activist organizations masquerading as research agencies," allegedly "have embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform."

The filing accuses the defendants of being "funded and supported by unknown organizations, individuals and potentially even foreign governments with ties to legacy media companies."

It further alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate has engaged in "a series of unlawful acts designed to improperly gain access to protected X Corp. data" needed so that the non-profit "could cherry-pick from the hundreds of millions of posts made each day on X and falsely claim it had statistical support showing the platform is overwhelmed with harmful content."

"CCDH uses those reports to demand that platform providers kick the targeted users off of their platforms, thus silencing their viewpoints on broadly debated topics such as COVID-19 vaccines, reproductive healthcare, and climate change," the 22-page complaint says. "In this manner, CCDH seeks to prevent public dialogue and the public’s access to free expression in favor of an ideological echo chamber that conforms to CCDH’s favored viewpoints."

"Most fundamentally, X Corp. has been harmed in its mission to provide its users with a platform in which topics of paramount public concern can be discussed and debated free from the censorship efforts of activist organizations advancing narrow ideological agendas through deceitful means," the filing says.

[–] moviechatterer (13597) 10 months ago

"bad actors use digital spaces to harm others and benefit themselves, as well as how and why bad platforms allow them to do so."

"provide its users with a platform in which topics of paramount public concern can be discussed and debated free from the censorship efforts of activist organizations advancing narrow ideological agendas"

I guess theres a fine line to be walked by the likes of Musk between censorship and "free speech"

If you dont censor anything then "bad actors use digital spaces to harm others "
if you do censor some things , then ... which things?