We found a mutually-reinforcing network of accounts spreading misinfo on Hurricane Helene, and those pushing false claims around Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio; the integrity of recent US elections; Jewish American citizens; and Russiaās full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This Dispatch examines how Hurricane Helene mis- and disinformation spread online, with antisemitic hate and election conspiracies promoted by politicians and extremists.
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This Dispatch examines how Hurricane Helene mis- and disinformation spread online, with antisemitic hate and election conspiracies promoted by politicians and extremists.
The Washington Post is publishing Trump propaganda because they are Trump propagandists bsky.app/profile/sara...
To have dozens of examples of Trump bias in the Washington Post over the course of the week would make a great column for any media reporter to write about but these are all happening ON THE SAME DAY
I'm sure nobody here is watching Fox News but this morning its DNC coverage is indistinguishable from the Washington Post's pro-Trump fact-check series
This newspaper is printing deliberately false information to help Donald Trump and asks you for $700/year to support them doing it
TRUMP: Kamala is a Marxist WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: She's a Communist WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: They did a coup WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: You can't go outside without getting raped WASHINGTON POST: DNC SPEAKER MICHELLE GRISHAM: Trump wants to repeal the ACA WASHINGTON POST: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THTRUMP: Kamala is a Marxist WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: She's a Communist WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: They did a coup WASHINGTON POST: TRUMP: You can't go outside without getting raped WASHINGTON POST: DNC SPEAKER MICHELLE GRISHAM: Trump wants to repeal the ACA WASHINGTON POST: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF TH
Climate change will inevitably stop being a hazy future concern and will someday turn everyday life upside down. At the risk of causing counterproductive doomism, I offer observations and speculations on how the planetary crisis may play out. 1/25 yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/when...
Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.
The section on climate change in the Musk/Trump "interview" is just *wild* It really is worth reading in full to get a sense of the two men. Just off-the-scale levels of ignorance, denial, misinformation and half-truths. I've put the transcript here... docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Elon Musk Yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I should probably say something about like, you know, maybe my views on, you know, climate change and oil and gas, because I think I'm probably differen...