The Fight Against Digital Hate

Imran Ahmed is a man in the middle of the disinformation wars. He is the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (https://counterhate.com/) (CCDH), an organization dedicated to researching online hate speech and disinformation. Audie talks with him about how he came to the work, the lawsuit filed against him by Elon Musk’s X Corp. (formerly Twitter), and what it all means for the debate over “free speech” versus “hate speech” online.

For more context on today’s conversation, read CNN’s reporting here (https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/tech/t.... And read X Corp’s response to CCDH here (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics....

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