Disinformation Watch - Deceleration

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

Dangerous online rumors that exploded after Hurricane Helene could be just the beginning, says emergency management expert Samantha Montano.

By Yale Climate Connections

/ 12 Oct 2024

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

Jordan Peterson Serves Climate Denial Mass to Fort Worth Faithful

“The religious right has been pushing the same narrative for years, linking social liberals to authoritarian socialism, and in turn characterizing environmental science as a socialist partisan weapon.” — Adrian Bardon

By DeSmog

/ 24 Sep 2024

Jordan Peterson Serves Climate Denial Mass to Fort Worth Faithful

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 2 of 2)

Climate denialists have long deployed the nefarious practice of ‘manufacturing doubt’ to undermine public understanding of the scientific consensus on global warming. Now anti-trans movements are borrowing the technique to poison trans healthcare research and ban care.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 21 Jun 2024

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 2 of 2)

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 1 of 2)

Orgs like Environmental Progress and Deep Green Resistance show the need to study the labels on ‘green’ groups to avoid carrying water for fascists and other far-right reactionaries.

By Marisol Cortez

/ 13 Jun 2024

Anti-Trans Disinfo Creeping on Climate Justice Spaces (Part 1 of 2)

Your Gas Stove Is Actually A Problem—and the Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known for Years

A new report from the Climate Investigations Center shows how the gas industry used Big Tobacco’s playbook to manufacture controversy around the health-damaging emissions from indoor gas stoves.

By Climate Investigations Center

/ 5 Jan 2024

Your Gas Stove Is Actually A Problem—and the Fossil Fuel Industry Has Known for Years

How to Stop Climate Disinformation

Disinfo on Twitter and and ‘nature-rinsing’ ad campaigns on Facebook are the norm. Transparency and accountability at Big Tech—and an end to the monetization of disinformation—is what’s required.

By The Nation

/ 21 Feb 2023

American Stewards of Liberty: The Culture Warriors Out to Destroy ‘America the Beautiful’

Billions of dollars may soon be en route for US wildlife conservation. But a Texas-based org’s groundless ‘land grab’ warnings have seeded resistance across the West.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jun 2022

American Stewards of Liberty: The Culture Warriors Out to Destroy ‘America the Beautiful’

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

Center Director Marianna Treviño-Wright says ‘psyops’ harassment and a recent violent confrontation preceded decision to close.

By Greg Harman

/ 3 Feb 2022

National Butterfly Center smeared by Pizzagate-style disinfo campaign closing ‘for the immediate future’

‘Gracias a Petroleo’: Fossil Fuel Ad Campaign Claims the Taco Truck

Look Beyond’s “San Antonio Entrepreneur Series” highlights businesses willing to give the petroleum industry an unqualified endorsement.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Nov 2021

How COVID-19 and White Fragility are Fueling Fascist Creep

In the COVID-19 era, white fragility intensifies a collective sense of white life in peril, paving the way for a rising fascism. How can we intervene? Alex Khasnabish/ROAR Politics

By Greg Harman

/ 20 May 2020

How COVID-19 and White Fragility are Fueling Fascist Creep

Factchecking the Texas Public Policy Foundation

By Greg Harman

/ 17 Oct 2019

Factchecking the Texas Public Policy Foundation

Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.

The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How is it measured and what it means. Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Jan 2017

Climate Deniers are Not Little Galileos. Here’s Why.