PhENtastic.bsky.social
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You don't know me... but i unfortunately know a lot about climate denial, propaganda and rightwing disinformation
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🐄 New analysis from @desmog.com shows how food and farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives are set to navigate COP30.
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Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30
In the city of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil has kicked off the COP30 climate conference, a summit framed as a pivotal moment to reduce emissions and keep the Paris Agreement…
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🐄 New analysis from @desmog.com shows how food and farming corporations, trade groups and initiatives are set to navigate COP30.
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A new @caadcoalition.bsky.social report warns climate disinformation fuels a 'false social reality': 89% want more action, yet most think they’re in the minority. Tackling info integrity is now on the COP30 agenda. #ClimateAction #Disinformation
🔗 www.caad.info/analysis/rep...
🔗 www.caad.info/analysis/rep...
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A new @caadcoalition.bsky.social report warns climate disinformation fuels a 'false social reality': 89% want more action, yet most think they’re in the minority. Tackling info integrity is now on the COP30 agenda. #ClimateAction #Disinformation
🔗 www.caad.info/analysis/rep...
🔗 www.caad.info/analysis/rep...
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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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Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling #COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...
Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
With the COP30 climate conference kicking off in Brazil this week, misinformation and disinformation are swirling.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Big Tech And Big Carbon Fueling #COP30 Misinformation, Groups Claim
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...
#climatecrisis
@caadcoalition.bsky.social
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawo...
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After four years of monitoring disinformation around the annual UN COP negotiations, CAAD’s pre-COP30 report represents a turning point in the struggle to confront climate disinformation. Read the report and sign up for regular disinformation bulletins during #COP30 here: act.ucsusa.org/4ozdxOj
Climate Action Against Disinformation |
Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified
act.ucsusa.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
After four years of monitoring disinformation around the annual UN COP negotiations, CAAD’s pre-COP30 report represents a turning point in the struggle to confront climate disinformation. Read the report and sign up for regular disinformation bulletins during #COP30 here: act.ucsusa.org/4ozdxOj
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🚨 Our new report, Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified, is out now. 🚨
The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.
The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🚨 Our new report, Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified, is out now. 🚨
The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.
The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.
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“Researchers have defined this kind of systemic misunderstanding of how others think as a perception gap, and one result is that politicians calculate that they can continue to cater to corporate interests and preserve the fossil fuel status quo.”
🌍 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.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Researchers have defined this kind of systemic misunderstanding of how others think as a perception gap, and one result is that politicians calculate that they can continue to cater to corporate interests and preserve the fossil fuel status quo.”
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.
Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer
Joe Rogan has one of the most popular podcasts on the Spotify and Apple Podcasts platforms, and a combined 50 million followers on YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram. And like nearly all of the most popu...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dana Nuccitelli (@dananuccitelli.bsky.social) debunks nineteen climate myths propagated by "two octogenarian fringe climate contrarians" on Joe Rogan's podcast.
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Right-wing media told Republicans that anti-trans politics would deliver a winning coalition.
2025 races show they misunderstood why the message ever worked.
2025 races show they misunderstood why the message ever worked.
Right-wing media told Republicans anti-trans politics would deliver a winning coalition. 2025 races show they misunderstood why the message ever worked.
www.mediamatters.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Right-wing media told Republicans that anti-trans politics would deliver a winning coalition.
2025 races show they misunderstood why the message ever worked.
2025 races show they misunderstood why the message ever worked.
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
heated.world
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
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Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
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"Canada told the fossil fuel industry greenwashing was illegal, and its response was that having to be honest and transparent would make it too hard to do business. Apparently the threat worked," says Phil Newell of @caadcoalition.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...
Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law despite public call for climate truth
Most Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"Canada told the fossil fuel industry greenwashing was illegal, and its response was that having to be honest and transparent would make it too hard to do business. Apparently the threat worked," says Phil Newell of @caadcoalition.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...
climate denial, too!
This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
climate denial, too!
Always happy to get @theonion.com in the mail
November 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Always happy to get @theonion.com in the mail
"Tell us what you're doing"
"Nooooooo but if I tell you im killing everyone for money you'll stop me, and my freeze peach!!!"
"Nooooooo but if I tell you im killing everyone for money you'll stop me, and my freeze peach!!!"
Exxon Mobil says the laws violate its First Amendment rights.
Exxon sues California over climate disclosure laws
Exxon Mobil says the laws violate its First Amendment rights.
reut.rs
October 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"Tell us what you're doing"
"Nooooooo but if I tell you im killing everyone for money you'll stop me, and my freeze peach!!!"
"Nooooooo but if I tell you im killing everyone for money you'll stop me, and my freeze peach!!!"
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🗓️ Join CAAD for a Pre-COP30 Disinformation Roundtable on Thursday October 30th, at 11am ET.
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🗓️ Join CAAD for a Pre-COP30 Disinformation Roundtable on Thursday October 30th, at 11am ET.
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
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I'll be on this panel talking about a big disinfo scoop DeSmog is preparing to publish :0
🗓️ Join CAAD for a Pre-COP30 Disinformation Roundtable on Thursday October 30th, at 11am ET.
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
We'll dig into the latest climate misinformation trends with a panel of experts and discuss how to counter false narratives ahead of COP30.
Register here buff.ly/A1Da6WM
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'll be on this panel talking about a big disinfo scoop DeSmog is preparing to publish :0
Tim Pool, formerly on the payroll of Russian state media (without his knowledge, apparently) is going to be an official Pentagon journalist. Seems fine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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🎯🧵ALSO: The Tea Party was an elite project the Koch Brothers had been trying to get off the ground for almost a decade before it finally took off. No Kings arose spontaneously from the people who felt abandoned by elites who either collaborated with Trump or indicated a willingness to do so.
Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]
October 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🎯🧵ALSO: The Tea Party was an elite project the Koch Brothers had been trying to get off the ground for almost a decade before it finally took off. No Kings arose spontaneously from the people who felt abandoned by elites who either collaborated with Trump or indicated a willingness to do so.
Liars know they're lying, and they're doing it on purpose to bully you into accepting their power. Don't.
Key!👇
Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...
"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."
"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."
Winning with #misinformation: people endorse easily disproven claims to prioritize symbolic strength theconversation.com/winning-with...
"...some people consider it a 'win' to lean in to known falsehoods."
"...mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes."
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Liars know they're lying, and they're doing it on purpose to bully you into accepting their power. Don't.
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This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.
Was that really it? Turns out: No.
@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.
Was that really it? Turns out: No.
@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.
After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.
Was that really it? Turns out: No.
@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.
Was that really it? Turns out: No.
@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.
Also, majorities in UK+Spain believed holding social media companies accountable for this kind.of harmful content would be a solution!
💡 After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
A new report confirms the cause was a voltage surge, not renewables. Yet polling shows 70% of respondents in Spain believed at least one of the false narratives about the outage.
via @npr.org
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A new report confirms the cause was a voltage surge, not renewables. Yet polling shows 70% of respondents in Spain believed at least one of the false narratives about the outage.
via @npr.org
buff.ly/Bi4vW3O
After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack
When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Also, majorities in UK+Spain believed holding social media companies accountable for this kind.of harmful content would be a solution!