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Big Name Climate Deniers Aren't Joining Conspiracy Theory-Friendly Parler — Yet

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 12 mins Parler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform — at least not yet. Tags: Social Media climate denial database climate denial twitter

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Fossil Freeze: Deadly Texas Catastrophe Shows How Natural Gas Systems Can Fail when Demand Spikes

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 16 mins As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines — some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 — spread rapidly on social media. Tags: texas Rick Perry natural gas pipelines extreme weather

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Should Climate Tech Companies Pay For Twitter Subscriptions?

Michael Grossman

You'd think a guy who founded an electric vehicle company and a company that builds solar panels would be all in on helping promote companies pursuing clean technology solutions on one of the world's largest social media networks, right? In social media metrics, engagement is considered the gold standard. Not necessarily.

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. The former BBC presenter has also promoted the series on his personal social media channels.

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Instagram Influencers Paid to Boost UAE’s Climate Credentials Over COP28

DeSmogBlog

Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the oil-dependent host nation, DeSmog can reveal. Reports of the fossil fuel interests of the host country dominated much of the media coverage of the summit.

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YouTube Still Monetizing, Promoting Climate Science Denial, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. Tags: climate science denial youtube avaaz PragerU Patrick Moore google

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Fact-checking the American Petroleum Institute's New Ads Selling Natural Gas as a Climate Solution

DeSmogBlog

In September, API began running TV , billboard, and social media ads promoting natural gas as a climate solution. Tags: American Petroleum Institute natural gas methane advertising spin Over 20 years later, their communications plan looks a little different but still needs fact-checking. . Thanks to natural gas, the U.S.