Jennie King (jkingy.bsky.social)
@jkingy
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Head of Climate Research and Policy @ISDGlobal. Founding member @caadcoalition. Migrating to Blue Sky at https://t.co/iUfPGIP5Kz.
Joined April 2009
🚨🌍 MONDAY MADNESS - CLIMATE DISINFO EDITION! 🚨🌍 @ISDglobal and @caadcoalition just launched a major new report, exploring how climate opposition evolved and metastasised in 2022 (specifically around #COP27). A🧵of key findings to start your week... https://t.co/nG0E7oSoCS
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NEW The UK government has just quietly published estimates showing wind and solar will be several times cheaper than gas, for the foreseeable future A few senior cabinet members (& a large section of the media) might like to take a look? THREAD with charts + caveats
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Everyone should watch this - come for the knowledge, stay for the squirrels @abbieasr
https://t.co/Efwey9r03M
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The United Arab Emirates says it's "ideally suited to host" COP28 later this year. But climate NGOs, policymakers and scientists are concerned. @jkingy talks to @CNN about how influence operations may ramp up in the lead up to the critical global summit.
isdglobal.org
ISD’s Jennie King spoke to CNN about the implications of UAE hosting COP28.
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🔴 The new front in conspiracy theories – farming and the EU Green Deal From DeSmog's @ClareCarlile in @euobs
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If you watched Fox News last month, you may have heard that Ireland is planning to slaughter 200,000 cows to meet its EU climate goals. Of course, there was one big problem with the reporting: the...
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A recent Valent investigation found large sums of money have been spent on an online effort to undermine support for #ULEZ before the #Uxbridge by-election, which observers say @UKLabour lost due to the clear air policy championed by @mayorofLondon #sadiqkhan check it out 👇 1/27
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While prominent climate deniers get millions of views, no brand is safe from being served alongside them. Even @friends_earth ads appeared next to a far-right channel denying that wildfire-induced air pollution and other extreme weather events are a result of climate change.
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Researchers found other big brands' ads next to videos peddling conspiracy theories that foreign governments are lying about Amazon deforestation in order to secure access to resources there, and are setting fire to the rainforest to boost fundraising efforts.
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From videos denying climate change is real, to spreading lies about forest fires – YouTube continues to allow this content to be monetized, despite promising otherwise. Brands like @lyft, @CalvinKlein, @UNICEF, @Jeep, @panasonic appear alongside this content.
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While global warming and wildfires reach their highest levels ever recorded, @YouTube is shamelessly greenwashing – earning up to $10M/year from channels pushing climate disinformation. With 150+ brands inadvertently funding these lies. 🔗 Full report: https://t.co/yKDgfgmdIx
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Oil and gas giants are making hundreds of millions in profits. And what are they spending it on? Influencers... to make it seem like they're not (in their own words) "the bad guys". 🔴 New @DeSmog story with @Ddimitriadis_ & @JoeyGrostern
desmog.com
Oil and gas supermajors including Shell and BP are using UK influencers to push false solutions to the climate crisis and manufacture a more family friendly image, DeSmog can reveal. The influencers...
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Another important thread from @MarcoLSilva at BBC Verify. You can read more about #wildfire misinformation - including how false arson claims have evolved from 2019 to now - in the latest Data Monitor from @caadcoalition and @ISDglobal 🔥🌍🚨 https://t.co/e6WJFZFAoW
🚨Tweets wrongly suggesting that wildfires in Greece 🇬🇷 have nothing to do with climate change have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. 1/6 🧵
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Another important thread from @MarcoLSilva at BBC Verify. You can read more about #wildfire misinformation - including how false arson claims have evolved from 2019 to now - in the latest Data Monitor from @caadcoalition and @ISDglobal 🔥🌍🚨 https://t.co/e6WJFZFAoW
🚨Tweets wrongly suggesting that wildfires in Greece 🇬🇷 have nothing to do with climate change have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. 1/6 🧵
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If you missed this event, look no further! @TheEnergyMix have published a superb overview, condensing 1 hour of chat into 5 mins of reading. Check it out👇 @ISDglobal @MarcoLSilva @CoveringClimate @M_Aronczyk @amywestervelt @caadcoalition @markhertsgaard
https://t.co/yDEvmg9GB3
theenergymix.com
As reporters confront sophisticated tactics aimed at obscuring the reality of climate change, knowledge is their ultimate weapon against deception, say media experts, who exposed the greenwashing...
@caadcoalition @datasociety @johnfocook @GeorgeLakoff if you're a journalist, please join us Thursday morning for a press briefing on how to cover climate disinformation, co-hosted by @CAADcoalition, moderated by @AmyWestervelt, with excellent panelists @MarcoLSilva, @M_Aronczyk, and @JKingy. https://t.co/HBXLE4nbm6
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@TheEnergyMix @ISDglobal @MarcoLSilva @CoveringClimate @M_Aronczyk @amywestervelt @caadcoalition @markhertsgaard
theenergymix.com
As reporters confront sophisticated tactics aimed at obscuring the reality of climate change, knowledge is their ultimate weapon against deception, say media experts, who exposed the greenwashing...
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If you missed this event, look no further! @TheEnergyMix have published a superb overview, condensing 1 hour of chat into 5 mins of reading. Check it out👇 @ISDglobal @MarcoLSilva @CoveringClimate @M_Aronczyk @amywestervelt @caadcoalition @markhertsgaard
https://t.co/yDEvmg9GB3
theenergymix.com
As reporters confront sophisticated tactics aimed at obscuring the reality of climate change, knowledge is their ultimate weapon against deception, say media experts, who exposed the greenwashing...
@caadcoalition @datasociety @johnfocook @GeorgeLakoff if you're a journalist, please join us Thursday morning for a press briefing on how to cover climate disinformation, co-hosted by @CAADcoalition, moderated by @AmyWestervelt, with excellent panelists @MarcoLSilva, @M_Aronczyk, and @JKingy. https://t.co/HBXLE4nbm6
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The #COP28 summit will be hosted by a Petrostate and presided over by the CEO of an oil company. How is this translating into PR efforts worldwide, and how can we track info ops in the run-up to December? Great piece by @CNN @IvanaKottasova. https://t.co/mBH58hOrxZ
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The #COP28 summit will be hosted by a Petrostate and presided over by the CEO of an oil company. How is this translating into PR efforts worldwide, and how can we track info ops in the run-up to December? Great piece by @CNN @IvanaKottasova. https://t.co/mBH58hOrxZ
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The latest edition of @caadcoalition and @ISDglobal's Climate Data Monitor went live today, feat. topic modelling of #wildfire mis- and disinfo from 2019-today. 🔥🌍 Subscribe at: https://t.co/ll6YXBwLTD 🚨Have an investigative lead or research steer?🚨 Email: contact@caad.info
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For those battling the paywall, we have now re-published our climate disinfo feature on the @ISDglobal website - Part 1 today, Part 2 on Thursday! Thanks to @zahed and the Digital Dispatches team for helping this reach a wider audience. https://t.co/yFd3e4bYM4
@UE @DeSmogUK
Thrilled to publish this piece for @tortoise based on 8 months of climate research at @ISDglobal. S/o to an unrelenting team of analysts and tech gurus @zdboren @f_arcostanzo @jcschwieter @RichardCollettW @cjcstewart @carljackmiller @JamieJBartlett @Dmaki891 @pierrevaux @zmanzi28
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@jkingy @ISDglobal @caadcoalition @dwnews @M_Aronczyk @RutgersU @MarcoLSilva @BBCNews “Disinformation campaigns are not very creative. The strategies have remained the same over decades. ...The playbook is thin, much thinner than you think, and once you start to detect the pattern, you will see it everywhere.” - @M_Aronczyk
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