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
Deze keer kan ik het niet laten🙂; ik doe op de valreep ook een keertje mee met een foto uit 2020 van komeet Neowise weerspiegeld in het A.G. Wildervanckkanaal.
#weerspiegeling @ikbendaan.bsky.social
Dank aan alle foto plaatsers hier, het is erg leuk om elke dag zoveel moois te zien!💚
#weerspiegeling @ikbendaan.bsky.social
Dank aan alle foto plaatsers hier, het is erg leuk om elke dag zoveel moois te zien!💚
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Deze keer kan ik het niet laten🙂; ik doe op de valreep ook een keertje mee met een foto uit 2020 van komeet Neowise weerspiegeld in het A.G. Wildervanckkanaal.
#weerspiegeling @ikbendaan.bsky.social
Dank aan alle foto plaatsers hier, het is erg leuk om elke dag zoveel moois te zien!💚
#weerspiegeling @ikbendaan.bsky.social
Dank aan alle foto plaatsers hier, het is erg leuk om elke dag zoveel moois te zien!💚
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
🔴 NEW 🔴
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing 'Misleading' Claims
EU taxpayers are funding a multi-year campaign blitz which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy while featuring bizarre and misleading claims. Since 2017, the Euro...
www.desmog.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🔴 NEW 🔴
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
“We are failing to act on climate change because we did not anticipate and prepare for the obstruction… for those who would block and delay the transition that needs to happen for our species to survive," says @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
Obstruction tactics delay climate action, says global assessment
A new global assessment explores who is blocking action on climate change through coordinated disinformation campaigns.
india.mongabay.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“We are failing to act on climate change because we did not anticipate and prepare for the obstruction… for those who would block and delay the transition that needs to happen for our species to survive," says @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
india.mongabay.com/2025/11/obst...
Sander Turnhout over hoe cranky charlatans koekenbakken met een magische mix van woordenbrij & drogredeneringen🪄🎩🐰
Voor wie meer wil leren over de vintage tactieken van de twijfelbrigade: bijgaand een overzicht van veelvoorkomende trucs.
Bron afbeelding: sks.to/plocc (zie ALT voor de definities)
Voor wie meer wil leren over de vintage tactieken van de twijfelbrigade: bijgaand een overzicht van veelvoorkomende trucs.
Bron afbeelding: sks.to/plocc (zie ALT voor de definities)
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Sander Turnhout over hoe cranky charlatans koekenbakken met een magische mix van woordenbrij & drogredeneringen🪄🎩🐰
Voor wie meer wil leren over de vintage tactieken van de twijfelbrigade: bijgaand een overzicht van veelvoorkomende trucs.
Bron afbeelding: sks.to/plocc (zie ALT voor de definities)
Voor wie meer wil leren over de vintage tactieken van de twijfelbrigade: bijgaand een overzicht van veelvoorkomende trucs.
Bron afbeelding: sks.to/plocc (zie ALT voor de definities)
Renee DiResta (📗 Invisible Rulers) on foreign grifters profiting from right-leaning audiences as reliable and lucrative revenue sources 🤑.
"simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue."
"simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue."
By me: a brief history of foreign agitators pretending to be Americans over the last decade, with most out to make a buck monetizing the culture war 💸(politics matter less than you think), and what X’s new feature shows…
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
On the Internet No One Knows You’re a “MAGA patriot” in Lagos
On X's new location feature...
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Renee DiResta (📗 Invisible Rulers) on foreign grifters profiting from right-leaning audiences as reliable and lucrative revenue sources 🤑.
"simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue."
"simply a dream customer: highly engaged, highly inflamed, and extremely willing to click through to garbage sites that paid out ad revenue."
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
🚨 Needed: "resistance against the normalisation of conspiracy theories in political discourse."
Yes!
New research: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/no-silv...
Spread of conspiracy theories: "...a ‘feedback loop’ between the internet, protest groups, political parties & mainstream media reporting..."
Yes!
New research: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/no-silv...
Spread of conspiracy theories: "...a ‘feedback loop’ between the internet, protest groups, political parties & mainstream media reporting..."
One size does not fit all for combatting conspiracy theories in Europe, says new research | King's College London
A continuous feedback loop of media reporting, political opportunism, protest groups and social media algorithms are fuelling the spread of conspiracy theories rather than one specific cause, says new...
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
🚨 Needed: "resistance against the normalisation of conspiracy theories in political discourse."
Yes!
New research: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/no-silv...
Spread of conspiracy theories: "...a ‘feedback loop’ between the internet, protest groups, political parties & mainstream media reporting..."
Yes!
New research: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/no-silv...
Spread of conspiracy theories: "...a ‘feedback loop’ between the internet, protest groups, political parties & mainstream media reporting..."
Franciska de Vries over het inzoomen🔎 op het klimaatmitigatie-potentieel van koolstofopslag in landbouwbodems vs de bredere benadering🔭 van slim landgebruik met het landschap als kompas.✨️
Ja, we moeten zeker het koolstofgehalte (=organische stof) van onze landbouwbodems vergroten, of op z'n minst op peil houden.
Maar voor klimaatmitigatie kunnen we beter focussen op ons landgebruik.
Ik schreef er een stuk over op @klimaatveranda.bsky.social
klimaatveranda.nl/2025/11/24/k...
Maar voor klimaatmitigatie kunnen we beter focussen op ons landgebruik.
Ik schreef er een stuk over op @klimaatveranda.bsky.social
klimaatveranda.nl/2025/11/24/k...
Klimaatmitigatie door landbouwbodems? We moeten vooral kijken naar ons landgebruik.
Bodems staan in de spotlight op de klimaattop. En terecht, want bodems slaan meer koolstof op, in de vorm van bodemorganische stof, dan de atmosfeer en vegetatie samen (Fig. 1). Het beschermen, en …
klimaatveranda.nl
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Franciska de Vries over het inzoomen🔎 op het klimaatmitigatie-potentieel van koolstofopslag in landbouwbodems vs de bredere benadering🔭 van slim landgebruik met het landschap als kompas.✨️
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
“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...
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
"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.
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
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/...
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
🚨📣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!
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
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.🙏
Reposted by Nienke de Haan
🌎 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✨️.