The Washington Post uncritically publishes the far-left organization’s attack on Breitbart, conservative media, Facebook

The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a British far-left think tank dedicated to pushing internet censorship, has tried to frame Breitbart News as the leading pusher of “climate change” on Facebook, only to be shot down by Facebook itself over its “erroneous” method.

CCDH is affiliated with Hope Not Hate, an SPLC-like lubrication plant funded by George Soros. It also received funding from the Oak Foundation, a Swiss-based eco-investment group that contributed $ 1 million to an initiative to make Communist China’s trade network spanning Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, more environmentally friendly.

The partial conclusions of CCDH were published by Bezos-owned Washington Posts Cat Zakrzewski, uncritical, with no background on the organization’s far left and ties to an organization that supports China’s bid for global dominance.

Apart from a skeptical comment from Facebook, there is also no attempt to question the report’s methodology, which describes criticism of the Green New Deal as “climate denial.”

The report also attacks other conservative media for alleged “climate denial”, including the Media Research Center, Western Journal, Washington Times, Daily Wire, Newsmax and Townhall.

Digital brown jerseys are attacking conservative organizations for daring to have an honest debate on climate policy. These anti-free speeches want to shut down anyone who dares to disagree with them.

– Brent Bozell (@BrentBozell) November 2, 2021

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell tossed CCDH as “digital brown jerseys” over the censorship report.

“These anti-free speeches want to shut down anyone who dares to disagree with them.”

This is the latest component of a wider left-wing effort inside and outside of Facebook to get the Breitbart News blacklisted by the social network.

Facebook Protesters (Max Whittaker / Getty)

The last attempt involved selective leaks to Wall Street Journal from within the company. It is unclear whether the effort will be coordinated.

The CCDH study, shared with Washington Post, claims that Breitbart News is the most influential of the ten publishers on Facebook who publish “climate change denial content” – and then goes on to claim that a writing a radio interview To criticize the far-left Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” is “denial of climate change.”

AOC (Getty Images / Win McNamee)

CCDH’s methodology is so poor that even Facebook spokesman Andy Stone, a former Democrat activist, criticized it.

Via Washington Post:

In a statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone called the method “defective” and claimed that the study represents only 0.3 percent of the “over 200 million interactions on English public climate change content from Pages and public groups in the same time period.”

Facebook similarly pushed back on the structure of CCDH’s disinformation dozen report, claiming it was based on “narrow data” that was not representative of the hundreds of millions of posts that people shared about coronavirus vaccines on Facebook. .

CCDH, a UK non-profit organization founded in 2018, is increasingly notorious for its campaigns to censor conservative and alternative media.

As Breitbart News has previously reported, the organization is affiliated with the British Labor Party, members of the British Government and Hope Not Hate, a British far-left campaign group supported by George Soros and tied to violent left-wing extremists.

In his New York Times bestselling book, Breaking The News: Disclosure of the establishment’s media’s hidden agreements and secret corruption, Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow describes how CCDH collaborated with the left-wing establishment media to get Federalist, a prominent conservative publication, removed from Google Ads:

Via Breaking The News:

Sometimes NBC’s activism becomes a little more obvious. In June 2020, NBC News reporter Adele-Momoko Fraser reported that ZeroHedge, a popular financial news blog with a libertarian political leaning, and the Federalist, a moderately conservative pro-Trump content opinion poll, would no longer be able to generate revenue from Google Ads. Fraser was working at the time for something called the “NBC News Verification Center” (even Orwell could have said the name is too straightforward).

The most astonishing part of this saga was not that a large establishment had exaggerated claims in a negative story about small businesses right in the middle; it was that the reporter thanked extreme left-wing activists for “collaborating” on it. Fraser tweeted at the publication of the most fake news article, “Thanks to @SFFakeNews and @CCDHate for their hard work and cooperation!” @SFFakeNews is the handle for a project called Stop Funding Fake News (ironically!) By the Center for Countering Digital Hate (@CCDHate). Stop Funding Fake News is a card-bearing member of the conspiratorial far left. For example, they have suggested that brands like Ford and Microsoft “finance racism.” 94 Stop Funding Fake News, a British advocacy company, smears Breitbart on its website and openly advocates that we should be “defused”.

CCDH was also involved by pressuring Twitter to blacklist popular British conservative expert Katie Hopkins.

Already tied to the British government and its left-wing opposition, the Labor Party, CCDH is also building its influence with the Biden administration.

Joe Biden used a previous CCDH investigation to accuse Facebook of “killing people” with “misinformation”. part of a broader effort to force the social network – which has already censored Donald Trump, a host of conservative influencers and the media – to further censor more conservative media.

Allum Bokhari is a senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s fight to erase the Trump movement and steal the election.