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Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis | The Guardian
by Jason Wilson
September 22, 2020
Disinformation successfully obscured the real causes of Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season. Now the same thing is happening around me, as…
Facebook’s latest hollow effort to fight climate change denial | Ars Technica
by Kate Cox
September 17, 2020
Facebook this week implemented yet another new initiative meant to combat rampant, dangerous disinformation on the platform—this time, relating to…
Social media disinformation on US west coast blazes ‘spreading faster than fire’ | The Guardian
by Jason Wilson
September 15, 2020
Photojournalist Nathan Howard was on assignment for a picture agency south-east of the fire-menaced foothill town of Estacada, Oregon, on…
US Wildfire Misinformation Mirrors What Happened in Australia | Gizmodo
by Ketan Joshi
September 14, 2020
Climate-intensified wildfires that changed the lived reality of a large majority of Australians in horrific and unforgettable ways triggered an…
Job Opening | Postdoctoral position on online scientific misinformation | Médialab Sciences Po
by Sciences Po Médialab
July 31, 2020
The Sciences Po médialab is hiring a postdoctoral for the WebClim project (2 years position). This position is part of…
Climate: The science may be settled, but the press coverage isn’t | Ars Technica
by John Timmer
July 31, 2020
Lots of the mainstream press has struggled with a desire to maintain what they think is objectivity in the face…
Targeting Greta Thunberg: A Case Study in Online Mis/Disinformation | The German Marshall Fund
by Eli Weiner, Laura Schwartz-Henderson, Emily Boardman Ndulue, and Aashka Dave
July 23, 2020
The German Marshall Fund’s Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative worked with MediaCloud to examine misinformation and disinformation related to the…
Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay | The Guardian
by Mohamed Adow
July 23, 2020
The power of climate science denial in the UK, thankfully, has been in retreat over the past decade. Nigel Lawson’s…
How Facebook Handles Climate Misinformation | The New York Times
by Veronica Penney
July 17, 2020
As Covid-19 spread across the globe early this year, Facebook went into action to combat potentially dangerous disinformation on its…