Anti-Hate Campaigner Wins Small Victory Over US Right Wing Government

Anti-Hate Campaigner Wins Small Victory Over US Right Wing Government

The Guardian newspaper reports that Imran Ahmed from the Centre For Countering Digital Hate, a small campaign group that has taken on the US right wing and their manipulation of news to suit their racism and homophobia, has won a small victory. The anti-disinformation campaigner is among five European nationals targeted by the Trump administration because of moves to push back against hate speech and misinformation. According to the BBC News Channel and other reports on Sky News, court documents released on Thursday said Vernon S Broderick, a judge in the southern district of New York, had granted Ahmed’s request for a temporary restraining order over any moves to remove him from the US, and blocked officials from detaining him before his case could be heard. The CCDH has previously incurred the wrath of tyrannical trillionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X -formerly Twitter-, over reports chronicling the rise of racist, antisemitic, homophobic and extremist content on the platform since he took it over. Musk tried unsuccessfully to sue the CCDH last year before calling it a “criminal organisation”. Ahmed was targeted alongside Clare Melford, who is based in the UK and runs the Global Disinformation Index (GDI). Musk has also called for the GDI to be shut down over its criticism of rightwing websites for spreading disinformation. The Guardian reported that right wing US bodies might attempt to sue the European Union and United Kingdom over these territories' more robust measures against fascist intimidation. A spokesperson for the British government emphasised that the US can have a right wing defination of "free speech" if it wanted, but that the UK stood by international efforts to regulate content and prevent harm to young people from extremism.

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