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  • With Climate Panel as a Beacon, Global Group Takes On Misinformation | The New York Times

    May 25, 2023

    A group of scholars introduced an international panel to study the digital information landscape, inspired by those who had been warning of the effect of global warming. Two years ago, […]

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  • Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature | MediaWell

    September 15, 2022

    Political actors and individuals who deny the reality of human-caused climate change are a minority with an outsized ability to shape domestic climate science, policy, and communications. This literature review […]

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  • Climate Change Denial & Skepticism: A Review of the Literature

    September 15, 2022

    As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, so does the ideological polarization around this issue which has caused an increase in climate denialism. With the evolution of social media and the internet sharing mis- and disinformation, conspiracy theories, echo chambers, and ideological entrenchment has only furthered disbelief in climate change over the last 50 years. This literature review points to the causes of how climate information has been misused and guides us towards next steps in combatting not only climate change but climate change denial.

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  • Catherine Weddig

    September 12, 2022

    Catherine Weddig is a former Program Associate for MediaWell and the Media & Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council. Currently, she works in New York City on environmental […]

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  • 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 three primary areas of interest: climate change communication, partisan media […]

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  • Opinion: Brazil is gaslighting its way to a climate misinformation catastrophe | The Washington Post

    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 the classroom and promoted faith-based covid-19 treatments, all with a nod […]

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  • How to Spot—and Help Stop—Climate Misinformation | NRDC

    April 26, 2022

    For the first time in its history, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has named the spread of climate misinformation as an obstruction to climate action, particularly in the […]

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  • Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads | The Washington Post

    April 25, 2022

    Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to downplay the extent of the environmental crisis. Under the new […]

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  • Climate Misinformation on Social Media Is Undermining Climate Action | NRDC

    April 21, 2022

    To hear some climate scientists and activists tell it, there are actually encouraging signs that climate skepticism is on the decline. The evidence for climate change that’s all around us—temperatures […]

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  • Pinterest bans climate misinformation | Slate

    April 12, 2022

    Last week, Pinterest announced that it would be banning climate change misinformation from its platform, including content that denies the existence of the environmental phenomenon and humans’ contribution to it. […]

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