by Sayer Ji, Green Med Info:
Ever since a fake grassroots organization from the United Kingdom named the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) was publicly called out by Senator Josh Hawley (R) on July 18th, 2021 for being a “foreign dark money group,” a growing chorus of inquiring voices has been asking for full disclosure on who is funding this foreign influence operation to suppress the constitutionally protected speech of American citizens on matters of life and death significance.
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That funding information is finally becoming available and there are at least nine, mostly foreign, and ostensibly charitable NGOs pouring money into them. This article will briefly review the history of CCDH’s campaign, and end with a list of their funders. This is not an exhaustive list, and is intended only for other researchers to continue to analyze and compile data further revealing this mostly still invisible, yet clearly powerful and malignant network.
A Review of The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) Foreign Influence Operation
On March 24, 2021, a newly formed, shadowy, foreign group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), published a report titled, THE DISINFORMATION DOZEN: Why platforms must act on twelve leading online anti-vaxxers,” claiming that only 12 individuals were responsible for the majority of the anti-vaccine content online, namely, the document stated: “Just twelve anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti‑vaccine content circulating on social media platforms.” Those 12 individuals include presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., myself, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, and varioius other prominent health advocates.
The organization pretended to be a grassroots movement, yet it wielded immense power, including being able to put its talking points directly into the mouths of elected officials across the pond, including the sitting president of the United States himself, who suggested that exercising free speech on topics related to the Covid jabs may be equivalent to murder.
Since then, not only have thousands of news articles republished CCDH’s false accusations, but the White House press secretary, the US Surgeon General, the President of the US, a comittee of the U.S. Congress and 14 state attorney generals further reified and globally distributed this ‘digital hit list‘ without any critical inquiry into its accuracy and clearly foreign and highly suspect provenance.
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That widely disseminated list (referenced 84,700 times on Google) has now been found out to be entirely factually inaccurate; It turns out that CCDH’s report contained statistics in error by an outlandish factor of 300 fold; which is why Facebook’s VP of Content Policy described it as a “faulty narrative,” “without evidence.” Not a single acknowledgement, correction, retraction, or apology has been issued by CCDH, or anyone who promoted the report thus far, despite the immense damage the report wrought to all affected.
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A Growing Number of Inquiring Minds Are Asking Who Are CCDH’s Dark Money Funders?
After several years of relative quiet, there has been a recent upswell of interest in the story, and more specifically, in who it is that is funding CCDH and why.
Most recently, independent journalist Paul Thacker published a report titled, “Twitter Files: Who Are the People Claiming RFK Jr. is “Disinformation”?,” wherein he asked the following salient questions directly to CCDH:
“Who runs Imran Ahmed and @CCDHate? Is it governments? Is it pharma interests? I asked. Imran Ahmed won’t respond.”
In response to this post, Elon Musk called CCDH CEO Imram Ahmed a “rat,” and posted the following question:
“Who is funding this organization? They spread disinformation and push censorship, while claiming the opposite. Truly evil.” (Twitter: 7/18/23)
While I do not approve of name-calling on either side, Elon’s presumably tongue-in-cheek designation of Imran as a ‘rat,’ does not compare to what Imran and his organization did to target US citizens like myself, labeling us as criminals, including calling us ‘profiteering killers,’ “selling death,” for sharing true information about the dangers of mRNA covid jabs. (Learn more about the Stanford Virality Project’s efforts to coverup true stories of vaccine injuries and deaths here).
More concerning perhaps is how CCDH’s rhetorical points made it into several Department of Homeland Security terrorism bulletins equating free speech and open debate about mRNA vaccine safety and efficacy, or Covid origins, as possible new forms of domestic terrorism.
Two days after Elon’s question, a national, nonprofit organization called American First Legal Foundation launched a multi-front investigation into what it calls “Government Collusion with Pro-Censorship UK-Based Nonprofit “Center for Countering Digital Hate ,” including freedom of information requests to Health and Human Services, the FBI, Dept. of Homeland Security, and the Department of State.
On that same day, July 20th, Robert F Kennedy Jr. gave testimony at the House Judicial Subcommitte Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government where he called out CCDH as “this very shady group from England that is funded by dark money and should be looked into,” further bringing national and long overdue attention to them.
