Cloudflare Is One of the Companies That Quietly Powers the Internet. Researchers Say It's a Haven for Misinformation

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How back-end companies could play a bigger role in policing the internet

To date, Cloudflare has declined to comment on the allegations, and whether it will continue to work with Kiwi Farms. The company did not respond to TIME’s request for comment.Cloudflare is, at its core, a content delivery network which quickly serves users websites that they request through their web browsers. It also defends sites against attackers. James Ball, author of, tells TIME that such companies are “the backbone of the modern internet.

They found that Cloudflare was a safe haven for toxicity. Although just one in five websites across the mainstream internet are hosted by Cloudflare, it hosts one in three websites known primarily for spreading hate speech or misinformation.“We find anecdotally that sites prefer Cloudflare because of its lax acceptable use policies and its free DDoS protection services that help protect against vigilante attacks,” the researchers write.

Amazon, Google, GoDaddy, and Unified Layer round out the top five CDNs hosting misinformation websites, according to the Stanford researchers. But, Ball says, “That’s not true, though.” He points to the ways that social media companies have routinely, though imperfectly, booted toxic users. “Just like social networks pick who is allowed on their platform, CDNs pick their customers.”

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Cloudflare—and other companies like it—are turning a blind eye to hate and misinformation, critics and researchers say. Does this cut both ways? Asking for a fren?

May 2022 study from Stanford found that Cloudflare was a safe haven for toxicity...hosts one in three websites known primarily for spreading hate speech or misinfo. ...makes Cloudflare the main platform misinfo websites have used for hosting since 2015. Reearch Kiwifarms🤬

But they will block left leaning people and sites relentlessly.

Would the woke liberals of the left by happy if Cloudflare start censoring woke propaganda online outlets, like they are crying it to do with radical right? Oh, that's free speech that should t be censored. My, I forgot.

As long as Cloudflare want to prop up these hate platforms, they deserve every bit of scrutiny that comes their way. This is unacceptable.

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Does the FBI or DoJ have any remaining credibility anymore with global perception?

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police is not required everywhere

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