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| ==== Career ==== | ==== Career ==== |
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| Ahmed founded the [[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] on October 19, 2018, originally registering the company under the name Brixton Endeavours Limited.((//CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE LTD overview.// Companies House. Retrieved April 10, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200410094741/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11633127/)) | Ahmed founded the [[Center for Countering Digital Hate]] on October 19, 2018, originally registering the company under the name Brixton Endeavours Limited.((//CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE LTD overview.// Companies House. Retrieved April 10, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200410094741/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11633127/)) According to his CCHH biography, he "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 supremacy|white supremacist]], who had been radicalized in part online, during the [[Brexit|EU Referendum in 2016]]."((//About.// Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://archive.ph/MM035)) |
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| On November 17, 2020, Ahmed was interviewed about a [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] hearing with [[Jack Dorsey]] and [[Mark Zuckerberg]] that had occurred earlier that day.((Center for Countering Digital Hate [@CCDHate]. (2020, November 17). //“NEW ‘This election was the last chance saloon for the social media companies which have failed to deal with misinformation on their platforms.’ Our CEO, @Imi_Ahmed on today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.”// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304004822/https://twitter.com/CCDHate/status/1328692797457698816)) | On November 17, 2020, Ahmed was interviewed about a [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] hearing with [[Jack Dorsey]] and [[Mark Zuckerberg]] that had occurred earlier that day.((Center for Countering Digital Hate [@CCDHate]. (2020, November 17). //“NEW ‘This election was the last chance saloon for the social media companies which have failed to deal with misinformation on their platforms.’ Our CEO, @Imi_Ahmed on today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.”// [Tweet]. Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304004822/https://twitter.com/CCDHate/status/1328692797457698816)) |
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| | On May 16, 2022, [[The Guardian]] published an article written by Ahmed titled "Buffalo might never have happened if online hate had been tackled after Christchurch", referring to the [[Christchurch mass shooting]] in March 2019.((Ahmed, I. (2022, May 16). //Buffalo might never have happened if online hate had been tackled after Christchurch.// The Guardian. https://web.archive.org/web/20230304014954/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/racist-words-social-media-kill-buffalo-meta-twitter-google-radicalisation)) |
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| ===== External links ===== | ===== External links ===== |
