What happens when someone is banned from a social media platform?

It happens more than you'd think. As our lives have increasingly moved online, so too have those who are intent on dividing and hating people, and social media companies have been slowly living up to their responsibility to remove them from their platforms.

In January 2017 tech entrepreneur Ray Vahey founded a company called BitChute: a video hosting website whose stated purpose was to be a home for those who had been removed from other platforms.

A new report from HOPE not hate now shines a light on exactly how dangerous this idea was.

Our research shows that BitChute is a platform that is dominated by dangerous and hateful content. Not only does it provide a home for the worst dregs of the internet, but as a company they actively defend hatemongers, and promote vile conspiracy theories.

This, however, is not as bad as it gets.

We found evidence of hundreds of videos on Bitchute from terrorist groups like National Action and Islamic State.

That means that, as a British company, they could be breaking the law.

All of this, and much more, is outlined in our new report, which you can read right now. 

What we found shocked us - I think it will shock you too.

Gregory Davies
HOPE not hate