Nienke de Haan
@nienkehaan.bsky.social
Stubborn optimist interested in science misinformation, volunteer @skepticalscience.bsky.social. Tries to be a critical thinker when it matters, imagines a 💚🌱 future. Posts in English & Dutch
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“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.
This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.
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The race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action
Negotiators in Belém, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: the race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation. The falsehoods, spreading faster...
news.un.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation.
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Brazil’s President Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
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"That’s why it’s so important that, for the first time, information integrity has made it to the [COP] Action Agenda."
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"That’s why it’s so important that, for the first time, information integrity has made it to the [COP] Action Agenda."
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
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As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As #COP30 begins in Belém @DeSmog can reveal over 140 ways food & agriculture firms to sway the summit. Meet the main players in Brazil's powerful agro lobby, along w/ US meat, dairy & grain industries -- and where they will target messages #AgroLobby. By @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & Gil Alessi
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300+ big agriculture lobbyists have participated in #COP30, taking place in the Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation.
States must commit to #EndFossilFuels, incl. agrochemicals, & reforming the COPs to address this conflict of interest.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
States must commit to #EndFossilFuels, incl. agrochemicals, & reforming the COPs to address this conflict of interest.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
300+ big agriculture lobbyists have participated in #COP30, taking place in the Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation.
States must commit to #EndFossilFuels, incl. agrochemicals, & reforming the COPs to address this conflict of interest.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
States must commit to #EndFossilFuels, incl. agrochemicals, & reforming the COPs to address this conflict of interest.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🚨📣InfluenceMap has just launched our Annual COP Narrative Tracker
Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year.
This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵
cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year.
This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵
cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
Misinformation Tracker
An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis
cop.influencemap.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
🚨📣InfluenceMap has just launched our Annual COP Narrative Tracker
Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year.
This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵
cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
Keeping track of the favoured narratives from the oil and gas industry over the last year.
This year - three key facts stood out from the analysis 👇🧵
cop.influencemap.org/NarrativeFac...
If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. ... We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems...
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. ... We face, alongside a global threat to our life-support systems, a global threat to our knowledge-support systems...
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Preventing climate breakdown means protecting ourselves from the storm of lies.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Als de graaiers en de profiteurs 🛢️🏭💰 zijn verdwenen, blijven de angst, boosheid, onrust en onmacht achter.
nos.nl/artikel/2590...
Maar gelukkig is Groningen meer dan wat er kapot is gemaakt: de weidsheid, de landschappen, de veerkracht en de stilte, laag en hemelsbreed.
nos.nl/artikel/2590...
Maar gelukkig is Groningen meer dan wat er kapot is gemaakt: de weidsheid, de landschappen, de veerkracht en de stilte, laag en hemelsbreed.
Aardbeving met kracht van 3,4 in Groningen, een van de zwaarste ooit
De aardbeving werd gevoeld in een groot deel van de provincie.
nos.nl
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Als de graaiers en de profiteurs 🛢️🏭💰 zijn verdwenen, blijven de angst, boosheid, onrust en onmacht achter.
nos.nl/artikel/2590...
Maar gelukkig is Groningen meer dan wat er kapot is gemaakt: de weidsheid, de landschappen, de veerkracht en de stilte, laag en hemelsbreed.
nos.nl/artikel/2590...
Maar gelukkig is Groningen meer dan wat er kapot is gemaakt: de weidsheid, de landschappen, de veerkracht en de stilte, laag en hemelsbreed.
"That’s why it’s so important that, for the first time, information integrity has made it to the [COP] Action Agenda."
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"That’s why it’s so important that, for the first time, information integrity has made it to the [COP] Action Agenda."
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
👇 Report on how Big Carbon (=Big Oil & Big Agro) uses disinformation to sabotage climate action at the int. level down to the local, and poisons ☠️ our digital info environment.
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"People viewed the sycophantic chatbots 🤖💕🙌 [bots that were prompted to validate everything people said and confirmed existing beliefs] as ... 🥁... highly unbiased."
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www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"People viewed the sycophantic chatbots 🤖💕🙌 [bots that were prompted to validate everything people said and confirmed existing beliefs] as ... 🥁... highly unbiased."
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www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
In my recent interview with Tristan Harris, I described our series of experiments finding that interacting with sycophantic chatbots entrenches beliefs.
However, people prefer sycophantic chatbots… ...
In my recent interview with Tristan Harris, I described our series of experiments finding that interacting with sycophantic chatbots entrenches beliefs.
However, people prefer sycophantic chatbots a...
www.linkedin.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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"People viewed the sycophantic chatbots 🤖💕🙌 [bots that were prompted to validate everything people said and confirmed existing beliefs] as ... 🥁... highly unbiased."
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www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"People viewed the sycophantic chatbots 🤖💕🙌 [bots that were prompted to validate everything people said and confirmed existing beliefs] as ... 🥁... highly unbiased."
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www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Wij zijn (onderdeel van) het algoritme.. 🐉👇
Maar het mes snijdt natuurlijk aan twee kanten; je kunt je laten misbruiken voor de verspreiding van misinformatie en het voeden van verdeeldheid, of wat je deelt inzetten voor iets moois!
Maar het mes snijdt natuurlijk aan twee kanten; je kunt je laten misbruiken voor de verspreiding van misinformatie en het voeden van verdeeldheid, of wat je deelt inzetten voor iets moois!
For each additional moral–emotional word in a social media post, the number of shares increases 13%
Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006)
The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%).
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Our new meta-analysis finds robust evidence of moral contagion (N=4,821,006)
The moral contagion effect is even stronger in larger, pre-registered studies (17%).
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Wij zijn (onderdeel van) het algoritme.. 🐉👇
Maar het mes snijdt natuurlijk aan twee kanten; je kunt je laten misbruiken voor de verspreiding van misinformatie en het voeden van verdeeldheid, of wat je deelt inzetten voor iets moois!
Maar het mes snijdt natuurlijk aan twee kanten; je kunt je laten misbruiken voor de verspreiding van misinformatie en het voeden van verdeeldheid, of wat je deelt inzetten voor iets moois!
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Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30
"Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our selective security"
"Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our selective security"
Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30
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buff.ly
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30
"Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our selective security"
"Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our selective security"
"Aronczyk & Boykoff didn’t just find problems; they also encountered potential solutions, particularly the way the concept of “rapid attribution” is being applied to disinformation “events.” By quickly attributing misleading information to industry actors, journalists can help “diminish trust ...
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🌍 The vast majority of people want governments to take climate action, but most wrongly think they're in the minority.
Amy Westervelt explores the media's role in this “perception gap" in this piece for @thenation.com
Amy Westervelt explores the media's role in this “perception gap" in this piece for @thenation.com
The Media Is Complicit in the Climate Confusion
The vast majority of people want their governments to take climate action—but most wrongly think they’re in the minority. The media is partly to blame.
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"Aronczyk & Boykoff didn’t just find problems; they also encountered potential solutions, particularly the way the concept of “rapid attribution” is being applied to disinformation “events.” By quickly attributing misleading information to industry actors, journalists can help “diminish trust ...
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#dtv Ik kreeg een supergave uitnodiging van onze kinderburgemeester (10) om samen te brainstormen over haar missie om kinderen in onze plattelandsgemeente de natuur te laten beleven.😍 Ze wil het liefst in spelvorm op avontuur.
➡️ Voorbeelden gezocht! Zowel eenmalige als doorlopende activiteiten.🙏
➡️ Voorbeelden gezocht! Zowel eenmalige als doorlopende activiteiten.🙏
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#dtv Ik kreeg een supergave uitnodiging van onze kinderburgemeester (10) om samen te brainstormen over haar missie om kinderen in onze plattelandsgemeente de natuur te laten beleven.😍 Ze wil het liefst in spelvorm op avontuur.
➡️ Voorbeelden gezocht! Zowel eenmalige als doorlopende activiteiten.🙏
➡️ Voorbeelden gezocht! Zowel eenmalige als doorlopende activiteiten.🙏
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🌎 Combating climate disinformation: Three hopeful signs as we head into COP30 — global recognition of the threat, stronger transparency laws, and a rising multilateral push for action.
Learn more via @ucs.org
Learn more via @ucs.org
Combating Climate Disinformation: Three Hopeful Signs as We Head into COP30
The US government’s move to enact the fossil fuel industry’s agenda by basing climate and energy policy on official disinformation could cause us to despair. As my colleague Carlos Martinez recently…
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌎 Combating climate disinformation: Three hopeful signs as we head into COP30 — global recognition of the threat, stronger transparency laws, and a rising multilateral push for action.
Learn more via @ucs.org
Learn more via @ucs.org
'The race to the bottom' 👇
Overigens kunnen niet alleen journalisten kiezen voor 'strategic silence'; wij als sociale media gebruikers ook. Slik ajb je verontwaardiging in, tel desnoods tot 1000 of maak een mooie wandeling en deel evt. later een goede duiding van de valse of misleidende ✨️tactiek✨️.
Overigens kunnen niet alleen journalisten kiezen voor 'strategic silence'; wij als sociale media gebruikers ook. Slik ajb je verontwaardiging in, tel desnoods tot 1000 of maak een mooie wandeling en deel evt. later een goede duiding van de valse of misleidende ✨️tactiek✨️.
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
'The race to the bottom' 👇
Overigens kunnen niet alleen journalisten kiezen voor 'strategic silence'; wij als sociale media gebruikers ook. Slik ajb je verontwaardiging in, tel desnoods tot 1000 of maak een mooie wandeling en deel evt. later een goede duiding van de valse of misleidende ✨️tactiek✨️.
Overigens kunnen niet alleen journalisten kiezen voor 'strategic silence'; wij als sociale media gebruikers ook. Slik ajb je verontwaardiging in, tel desnoods tot 1000 of maak een mooie wandeling en deel evt. later een goede duiding van de valse of misleidende ✨️tactiek✨️.
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Geert Wilders gebruikt een klassieke autoritaire strategie: bij verlies de verkiezingsuitslag verdacht maken. Door ongefundeerd te suggereren dat er sprake is van fraude, ondermijnt hij doelbewust het vertrouwen in de democratie. Precies zoals zijn voorbeelden Trump, Netanyahu en Orbán deden.
De volgende stap in het fascistische draaiboek van Geert Wilders: verkiezingen in twijfel trekken
PVV-leider Geert Wilders gebruikt een klassieke autoritaire strategie: bij verlies de verkiezingsuitslag verdacht maken. Door volstrekt ongefundeerd te suggereren dat er sprake is van fraude, ondermij...
decorrespondent.nl
November 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Geert Wilders gebruikt een klassieke autoritaire strategie: bij verlies de verkiezingsuitslag verdacht maken. Door ongefundeerd te suggereren dat er sprake is van fraude, ondermijnt hij doelbewust het vertrouwen in de democratie. Precies zoals zijn voorbeelden Trump, Netanyahu en Orbán deden.
Soms zit er maar 1 ding op 🌬: naar buiten!
Hunzedal vanochtend. Beversporen, de vogels, blauwe lucht, eeuwenoud landschap. Zo fijn! 💚
Hunzedal vanochtend. Beversporen, de vogels, blauwe lucht, eeuwenoud landschap. Zo fijn! 💚
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Soms zit er maar 1 ding op 🌬: naar buiten!
Hunzedal vanochtend. Beversporen, de vogels, blauwe lucht, eeuwenoud landschap. Zo fijn! 💚
Hunzedal vanochtend. Beversporen, de vogels, blauwe lucht, eeuwenoud landschap. Zo fijn! 💚
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Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide.
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We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:
We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide.
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We need to treat epistemic security as a public good to preserve our shared capacity to know, reason, decide.
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"Deze alliantie is geen toekomstige, potentiële dreiging voor onze democratie, maar een 'clear and present' danger. Onder onze neuzen probeert deze alliantie democratieën af te breken door polarisatie en desinformatie niet alleen op hun beloop te laten, maar actief te bevorderen."
“Want [..] geen van deze dreigingen zaagt op dit monent zo hard aan de stoelpoten van democratieën als het verbond dat zich aftekent tussen mondiale techreuzen en autocratische wereldleiders” www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Opinie: De grootste dreiging blijft onbenoemd omdat hij de capaciteit van AIVD en MIVD overstijgt
Extreemrechts, terrorisme, hackoperaties, spionage en Rusland: de algemene dreigingen zijn bekend, maar de grootste dreiging is nog altijd het verbond tussen mondiale techreuzen en autocratische werel...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Deze alliantie is geen toekomstige, potentiële dreiging voor onze democratie, maar een 'clear and present' danger. Onder onze neuzen probeert deze alliantie democratieën af te breken door polarisatie en desinformatie niet alleen op hun beloop te laten, maar actief te bevorderen."
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New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New Bayesian *Meta-Analysis* of Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation! Open-access 👇Thread! Buckle up
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅We find that prebunking interventions improve people's ability to discern between reliable & unreliable news without causing undue skepticism!
Claims van Big Agro waarbij je mentaal een rijtje rode vlaggetjes🚩🚩🚩 zou moeten plaatsen.
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From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇
📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
From regenerative agriculture to ‘efficiency is enough' and ‘we feed the world’ narratives - check out these 8 big greenwashing terms ahead of COP30 👇
📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social & @hazelhealy.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/b...
Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30
Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.
www.desmog.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Claims van Big Agro waarbij je mentaal een rijtje rode vlaggetjes🚩🚩🚩 zou moeten plaatsen.
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
If you think mis- and disinformation is no big deal , read this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Onderstaande ⬇️ aflevering van @drilledmedia.bsky.social gaat over het hoofdstuk "The Animal Agriculture Industry’s🐮💨 Role in Obstructing Climate Action🌍" uit het pas gepubliceerde "Climate Obstruction - A Global Assessment".
In dat hoofdstuk wordt speciale aandacht besteed aan de situatie in NL 🚜
In dat hoofdstuk wordt speciale aandacht besteed aan de situatie in NL 🚜
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Onderstaande ⬇️ aflevering van @drilledmedia.bsky.social gaat over het hoofdstuk "The Animal Agriculture Industry’s🐮💨 Role in Obstructing Climate Action🌍" uit het pas gepubliceerde "Climate Obstruction - A Global Assessment".
In dat hoofdstuk wordt speciale aandacht besteed aan de situatie in NL 🚜
In dat hoofdstuk wordt speciale aandacht besteed aan de situatie in NL 🚜