====== Center for Countering Digital Hate ======

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The **Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)**, formerly Brixton Endeavours Limited, is a non-profit organization based in [[united_kingdom:england:London]], [[united_kingdom:England]], with a second branch of the organization based in [[united_states:Washington, D.C.]]((//About.// Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://archive.ph/MM035)) 

===== History =====

==== Founding ====

CCDH was founded on October 19, 2018 by [[Imran Ahmed]], originally registering the company under the name Brixton Endeavours Limited. It changed its name to Center for Countering Digital Hate in August 2019.((//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/)) 

On April 23, 2021, its US office was registered as a nonprofit organization in the [[United States]] with an effective date of December 11, 2020.((Martin, S. A. (2021, April 23). //Letter 947 (Rev. 2-2020).// Internal Revenue Service. https://www.campfire.wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=finalletter_86-2006080_centerforcounteringdigitalhateinc_04082021_00.pdf))

==== CCDH Dark Money and Imran Ahmed ====

Substack Disinformation Chronicles - Paul D. Thacker Oct 2, 2023

Corporate Liberals Weaponize Claims of Hate to Censor the Left and Conservatives
How did so many Americans fall for a dark money operative claiming expertise on antisemitism, [[:vaccines]], tech companies, hate, Big Pharma, disinformation, FDA regulation and—what have I missed?

I want to explain how I uncovered Ahmed’s hidden money, alleged ties to British intelligence, and links to a shady nonprofit called [[:Stop Funding Fake News]] that destroyed the Canary—a British leftist news site aligned with the [[:Jeremy Corbyn]] leftist arm of Labour. Before that, I want to point out about how odd it is that a British political operative is now running a partisan campaign in the United States. This rarely happens.

For a variety of complex reasons, British political operatives don’t come to the United States, Americans go to England. Not just the UK, but wherever a political party needs top advice to win a campaign, they hire Americans: Israel, Argentina, Latin America, Europe…. Few know this, but a former colleague from my time in the Senate, Jim Messina, was hired by British politicians and helped push through [[:Brexit]], although by accident. Putting Brexit up for vote was a political ploy designed to quiet British critics of the EU, but this backfired when the issue then passed. The FT has a deep dive on Messina’s many political failures in the UK, Italy, Spain, and other countries—see here.

Understanding how global political advice operates, I became very intrigued by [[:Imran Ahmed]]’s ability to hop from London to DC, raise $1.5 million in dark money for the [[:Center for Countering Digital Hate]], and then have a 2021 report he put out become fodder for a White House press conference and hearings in Congress.

I’m still not certain who is controlling Ahmed, but I plan to write more on him over the next couple of weeks, investigating his ties to various political groups in the United States and to [[:Peter Hotez]], an American physician, an ardent proponent of [[:Anthony Fauci]] and cheerleader in the national media for [[:vaccines]] and Biden administration pandemic policies.
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First, take a look Imran Ahmed and the documents and money trail I uncovered to report Imran Ahmed for Tablet;

The New Push for [[:Censorship]] Under the Guise of Combating Hate; How an obscure British nonprofit came to influence White House [[:COVID policy]] and lead attacks on Elon. Musk.((https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/corporate-liberals-weaponize-claims))


===== Activities =====

==== Publications ====

  * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201203031200/https://252f2edd-1c8b-49f5-9bb2-cb57bb47e4ba.filesusr.com/ugd/f4d9b9_7aa1bf9819904295a0493a013b285a6b.pdf|The Anti-Vaxx Industry]]

===== Organization =====

==== Personnel ====

^ Name  ^ Position  ^ Notes  ^
| [[Imran Ahmed]]  | Founder and CEO  | [[University of Cambridge]]  |
| [[Sarah Eagan]]  | Chief of Staff  | [[NextGen America]]  |
| [[Callum Hood]]  | Head of Research  | -  |
| [[Tom Lavelle]]  | Head of Campaigns  | [[Gordon Brown]]  |
| [[Simon Clark]]  | Chair of the Board  | [[Atlantic Council]], [[Digital Forensic Research Lab]] (DFRLab), [[Foreign Policy for America]], [[Center for American Progress]] (CAP)  |
| [[Tom Brookes]]  | Director  | [[APCO Worldwide]], [[Apple]], [[European Climate Foundation]], [[Global Strategic Communications Council]] (GSCC), [[Gplus Europe]], [[Porter Novelli]]((//Tom Brookes.// LinkedIn. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobrookes/))  |
| [[Damian Collins]]  | Director  | Member of Parliament, [[Connect Fund]]  |
| [[Matthew Gould]]  | Director  | 

===== External links =====

  * [[https://covidtruthinitiative.ca/en/Organizations/Center-for-Countering-Digital-Hate|COVID Truth Initiative]]
  * [[https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-countering-digital-hate/|InfluenceWatch]]
  * [[https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-countering-digital-hate/|LinkedIn]]
  * [[https://counterhate.com|Website]]
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Countering_Digital_Hate|Wikipedia]]
  * [[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_Countering_Digital_Hate|Wikispooks]]

==== Further reading ====

  * August 9, 2020: [[https://iaindavis.com/ccdh-part-1/|CCDH – The Centre For Cancel Culture And Digital Hypocrisy – Part 1]] and [[https://iaindavis.com/ccdh-part-2/|Part 2]] by [[Iain Davis]]