⚖️ 🌱 Landmark ruling: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights just ruled that a stable climate is a human right. This decision legally obligates states to take urgent measures to address the climate crisis, including monitoring corporate emissions.

🤖 New from @guardian : Fears AI factcheckers on X could increase promotion of conspiracy theories, “leaving it to bots to edit the news.

🎧 The new episode of SLAPPd is out now!. As Greenpeace's anti-SLAPP case against Energy Transfer kicks off in Europe, @drilledmedia traces the $666M lawsuit back to the Standing Rock protests, & asks what Energy Transfer wanted to keep out of court.

🚫 🛢️ More than 100 UK ad agencies are urging a total ban on fossil fuel ads, saying it’s time to treat Big Oil like Big Tobacco. With Parliament debating the issue on July 7, the industry is pushing to end greenwashing and put people’s health first.

📈 Google’s emissions have soared 1,515% since 2010. @KairosFellows report, “Google’s Eco-Failures,” reveals how AI expansion is fuelling environmental damage, while Google misleads the public about its climate impact & progress toward net zero.

🚨 The new EuroBarometer on Climate Change has been released and reveals how Europeans feel about climate change and what they expect from policymakers. Learn more:

⚡ Fox News’ Bret Baier highlighted how data centers could drive up energy costs, but left out a key factor: Trump’s cuts to renewable energy tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are making it harder to meet rising energy demand. via @mmfa

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🔎 📁 A new investigation by @aiforensics_org has found that X's advertising systems allows brands to target users based on sensitive personal data including political views, religion & sexual orientation, despite EU laws prohibiting this practice.

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🔎 📁 New investigation by @aiforensics_org has found that X's advertising systems allows brands to target users based on sensitive personal data including political views, religion & sexual orientation, despite EU laws prohibiting this practice.

🌍 CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed warned at London Climate Action Week that social media poses a huge threat to climate action. Citing CCDH’s “New Climate Denial” report, he explained how climate deniers are shifting tactics to undermine science & delay solutions.

While officials warn about foreign disinfo, there’s little debate on how Norway’s own fossil fuel interests shape the conversation at home. Klimakultur calls for an honest look at industry influence and asks: if not Norway, who will lead the way? . 2/2.

🇳🇴 When you think of a “petrostate” spreading climate disinfo, Norway might not come to mind- but it should. Despite its green image, a new briefing from Klimakultur shows state-owned Equinor funding propaganda filled school programs and expanding oil and gas projects. 1/2.

🔎 New analysis from @mmfa found that half of the top 10 online shows spread misinformation or false narratives about Hurricane Helene in 2024.

@guardian “The fossil fuel playbook has undermined the protection of all human rights that are negatively impacted by climate change for over six decades.” . Read the report in full:

🗒️ Elisa Morgera, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and climate change, is calling for criminal penalties for those spreading fossil fuel disinfo, as well as a ban on industry lobbying & advertising. via @guardian:

🗳️ IPIE’s global analysis of generative AI in elections has found that 80% of countries with elections in 2024 saw generative incidents, most were harmful and untraceable. Read more via @nytimes

🚨 NEW Data Monitor out now! This issue explores how attacks on Greta Thunberg during the Madleen voyage reveal three key right-wing disinformation tactics used to discredit climate activism.

🚨 New from @desmog: Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP. The agency’s work for the fossil fuel industry has made it “complicit in causing existential harm to people and planet”, say campaigners.