The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its backers have been actively working to assert false and misleading claims encouraging advertisers to pause investment on the platform. X is a free public service funded largely by advertisers. Through the CCDH's scare campaign and its ongoing pressure on brands to prevent the public’s access to free expression, the CCDH is actively working to prevent public dialogue.
We have identified several ways in which the CCDH is actively working to prevent free expression. That includes:
- Targeting people on all platforms who speak about issues the CCDH doesn’t agree with.
- Attempting to coerce the deplatforming of users whose views do not conform to the CCDH's ideological agenda.
- Targeting free-speech organizations by focusing on their revenue stream to remove free services for people.
- Attempting to illegally gain unauthorized access to social media platform data and to misuse that data.