Jennie King
jkingy.bsky.social
Jennie King
@jkingy.bsky.social
Professionally Online. Director of Climate Research & Policy @ ISD www.isdglobal.org. Co-founder @ Climate Action Against Disinformation www.caad.info.

Come for the heady combo of conspiracies, hate and extremism; stay for the whimsical use of semicolons.
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I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow.

It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included!

🧪 🔌 💡

(@davidrvetter.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive...)

go.bsky.app/J3783tF
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC,” the Secretary of Defense declared as he discussed sensitive military operations with senior White House officials in a group chat to which the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine had been mistakenly added.
March 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wildest story I’ve read in a goodly while. Armando Iannucci himself could never.
March 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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So far the documents from the investigations into climate disinformation seem to be online still, but if they're taken down (as the first ones were), we've got them available for you at Drilled:
1st round: drilled.media/documents/5e...
2024: drilled.media/documents/82...
January 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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When extreme weather hits, misinformation often follows. Flash floods in Valencia, Spain, sparked baseless claims that "HAARP" was responsible.

@bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social explores the origins of these claims & how misinformation can undermine climate action.
HAARP and Spain's Valencia floods: debunking the myths - BBC Trending, BBC World Service
When Valencia was hit by flash floods in October 2024, social media was awash with spurious claims that “HAARP” was to blame for the extreme weather. For th...
buff.ly
February 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉
The Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Entry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent...
coveringclimatenow.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow.

It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included!

🧪 🔌 💡

(@davidrvetter.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive...)

go.bsky.app/J3783tF
November 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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It's so cool how quickly this filled up. Update your follows and click follow all!

Women VS Disinfo!

A huge selection of expert researchers, fact checkers, journalists, debunkers, science communicators, academics, vloggers, etc. of all things Disinfo / Conspiracy

go.bsky.app/FFCjgks
December 3, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Trump: "We don't want windmills in this country. We're putting an order on it. I've already sort of done it. We don't want windmills ... you know what else people don't like? Those massive solar fields."
January 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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NEW DATA:

📈German electricity generation from renewable energy reached record share of 62.7% in 2024.

📉Since 2014, CO2 emissions from electricity generation have halved.
January 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm

This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality.

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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NEW ANALYSIS:

Right-leaning UK newspaper editorials have relentlessly attacked energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year's election, calling him "hysterical", a "madman" & "demented"

The papers have also published a record number of editorials opposing climate action…
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January 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A city awakes.
January 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is,

this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.
January 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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How do you make good journalism succeed on platforms that reward the qualities of MrBeast videos? You do not, as we’ve found. The news content that performs well on social media is increasingly further-removed from the standards valued by traditional newsrooms
January 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The dynamics between journalism, social media content creation, and the media industry are not as simple as people make them out to be (journalists can influence, influencers can do journalism), but one thing for certain is that traditional media orgs cannot be saved by becoming influencers
January 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.
January 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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PS fact checks don’t suppress speech, fact checks are actually MORE SPEECH. /end
January 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Let’s be clear—the fact checkers have not “been” politically biased as Zuck suggests, but have been *perceived as such* because of politically motivated efforts to smear them, one that Zuck is now participating in and capitulating to. 1/
"We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S," Mark Zuckerberg announces

He asserts that "the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased, and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S."
January 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I know we’ve become numbed by each new crisis on social media, each capitulation from Silicon Valley to bad faith actors. Even so, this Zuck statement is a disaster.

Watch it in full to understand what’s at stake and how regulation like the DSA is in real jeopardy.

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=152...
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January 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨 OPSEC ALERT 🚨

Thanks to @byrontau.bsky.social (via my brother) for flagging this - details on how to deactivate/opt out on all iOS devices can be found under the tagged post.

@eff.org
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!
January 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM