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Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature
September 15, 2022
Abstract Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability…
Catherine Weddig
September 12, 2022
Catherine Weddig is a former Program Associate for MediaWell and the Media & Democracy program at the Social Science Research…
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Lauren Feldman (Ph.D. ’08), Rutgers University
August 26, 2022
Lauren Feldman is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. Her current research emphasizes…
Opinion: Brazil is gaslighting its way to a climate misinformation catastrophe | The Washington Post
by Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis
May 10, 2022
Brazilians know all about fake news. Digital hucksters have attacked the integrity of Brazil’s electronic voting system, baselessly accused adversaries of “teaching” homosexuality in…
How to Spot—and Help Stop—Climate Misinformation | NRDC
by Courtney Lindwall
April 26, 2022
For the first time in its history, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has named the spread of climate…
Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads | The Washington Post
by Naomi Nix
April 25, 2022
Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to…
Climate Misinformation on Social Media Is Undermining Climate Action | NRDC
by Jeff Turrentine
April 21, 2022
To hear some climate scientists and activists tell it, there are actually encouraging signs that climate skepticism is on the…
Pinterest bans climate misinformation | Slate
by Aaron Mak
April 12, 2022
Last week, Pinterest announced that it would be banning climate change misinformation from its platform, including content that denies the…
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
April 6, 2022
Pinterest announced today it’s becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat false…