🔴 NEW 🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds ▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production' My latest for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...

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🔴 NEW - Reform’s Matthew Goodwin Challenged on Orbán Funding Ties at Budapest Event The GB News presenter didn’t deny still receiving income from a Hungarian think tank. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Orbán Allies Received £57 Million from State Oil Giant Days Before Election For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

In case you missed it, @desmog.com produced a map last week tracking the ties – including funding relationships – between Reform and Viktor Orbán's regime, based on our years of following this network. Check it out 👇

🔴 NEW - Orbán Allies Received £57 Million from State Oil Giant Days Before Election For Reform-linked Mathias Corvinus Collegium, election week saw a dividends bonanza. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Matthew Goodwin spoke at Orbán’s in-house think tank in Budapest yesterday where he tried to console Fidesz supporters. Crucially, Goodwin also didn’t deny still receiving money from MCC – saying “I’m perfectly fine with all of my working relationships” 👀 📝 @desmog.com exclusive 👇

🔴 NEW - Reform’s Matthew Goodwin Challenged on Orbán Funding Ties at Budapest Event The GB News presenter didn’t deny still receiving income from a Hungarian think tank. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

🔴 Revealed: The MAGA Plan to ‘Take Out’ Progressive Leaders Worldwide Trump-aligned CPAC is backing far-right electoral candidates across Latin America and Europe – including Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán. 📝 @geoffdembicki.bsky.social

What a brilliant investigation showing the links between Farage and Hungary's authoritarian Orban govt.🔻

NEW: The Carney government wants to provide gas for Trump's AI strategy. This is only one year after the Liberals won an election on promises to distance Canada from the U.S. buff.ly/W4H14Vz

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Data center developers have been pushing for changes in Coweta County, Georgia that will allow them to build a data center complex the size of ~600 football fields — on conservation woodlands flanked by rural neighborhoods.

🔴 Seven Things You Should Know About Reform’s Policy Chief James Orr The key facts about one of Nigel Farage’s closest allies. 📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - The Vested Interests Lobbying for North Sea Oil and Gas Expansion Fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers have been leading the charge for more drilling. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Mark Carney has pledged $1B to help Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project. No, this is NOT an April fool's joke. We wish it was.

📍 NEW 📍 A small Pennsylvania town just proved what organized communities can do to fight climate threats: Archbald residents protested and persuaded officials to reject a data center project tied to pollution and rising utility bills. buff.ly/BlnHtYm @edwarddonnelly

📍 NEW 📍 “Fossi" is a new children’s book character who reframes fossil fuels as unfairly blamed. But critics aren’t buying it: “The idea that fossil fuels are the ‘new’ kid deserving of sympathy is almost laughable." buff.ly/JcqgrNg #BaseloadCapital @TJjordan.bsky.social #fossilfuels

🔴 NEW - The Vested Interests Lobbying for North Sea Oil and Gas Expansion Fossil fuel interests and climate science deniers have been leading the charge for more drilling. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

buff.ly/jgV7fnl Under Trump, fossil fuel companies have rolled back energy transition strategies. Now, a growing number of oil and gas professionals are confronting a dilemma: Will my conscience allow me to continue to work in this industry, or is the cognitive dissonance becoming too extreme?

BBC accused of making ‘propaganda’ films for Saudi sovereign wealth fund

🔴 NEW 🔴 The BBC’s commercial content arm has been producing propaganda films for Saudi Arabia – the state behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 📝 Our @desmog.com story in @theguardian.com

🔴 NEW - BBC Under Fire for Producing Paid ‘Propaganda’ for Saudi Arabia Campaigners have raised “serious concerns” about the broadcaster promoting a regime that is a “proven killer of journalists”. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform’s policy chief James Orr last weekend shared a stage with a white nationalist politician whose immigration policy is “if you’re black, go back.” 📝 @desmog.com 👇

🔴 NEW - Reform Policy Chief James Orr Shared Stage With White Nationalist One of Farage’s top advisors rubbed shoulders with a far-right Estonian politician who has said “if you’re black, go back”. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

❗️ REVEALED: Former oil and gas CEO Gwyn Morgan has funnelled over $9.5M to a vast anti-climate network of conservative think tanks, organizations, and media. We mapped Morgan’s influence machine. Check it out below:

🔴 NEW - Energy Firms Dodge £1 Billion Debt Relief Bill After Corporate Lobbying Ofgem has rejected calls for household energy debts to be paid off using excess profits.

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Meet Canada's "Gas Wizard": Dan McTeague cultivates a media image as a consumer advocate while running a group urging people to fight against climate policies.

📍 NEW 📍 Big Oil is seizing on war and energy fears to weaken EU methane limits — and lock in decades of new U.S. fossil fuel projects. Read DeSmog's latest co-publish with ExxonKnews. buff.ly/BVcPFtS @emdashsanders.bsky.social #LNG #CheniereEnergy #methane

📍 NEW 📍As climate disasters drive insurance costs through the roof, states are moving to make Big Oil polluters cover the damage.
Read Sharon Kelly's latest for DeSmog. buff.ly/xForeVT #SharonKelly

🔴 NEW - Kemi Badenoch Accepted £7,500 Retreat from Chair of Climate Denial Group The Tory leader spent a week at the home of a major party donor. 📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

🔴 NEW 🔴 Pro-oil Tory leader Kemi Badenoch accepted a £7,500 retreat from a major party donor who happens to chair an influential climate science denial group. 📝 @desmog.com story 👇

Don't listen to the "coalition of the drilling". More oil and gas won't cut energy bills. Here's why: national.thelead.uk/p/iran-war-m... @desmog.com @theleaduk.bsky.social (Hat tip @carbonbrief.org)

Canadian politicians and pundits are leveraging Trump’s war with Iran to expand fossil fuel infrastructure. ❗️This is the shock doctrine in action❗️

Our UK team had a brilliant time working at Be Hive London this week – a really lovely space. We'd highly recommend to any similar orgs!

The SNP are running an executive from Norway's state fossil fuel company for Shetland's seat in Holyrood. A look at her candidacy, policies (so far) and lobbying in my latest, for @desmog.com:

New from me and @desmog.com Documents show oil giants knew their practices were wrecking Louisiana's coast nearly a century ago, but continued them and fought regulation and accountability. Now a case in front of the Supreme Court could determine whether they'll have to help repair the damage.

My latest tracking the long and drawn out case of alleged Exxon hacker-for-hire Amit Forlit. Arrested under an Interpol Red Notice in 2024, Forlit's request to appeal against extradition was denied today making it more likely he will face trial in the US. @desmog.com

📍BREAKING📍 UK High Court denies an appeal for alleged Exxon “hack-for-hire” operator. Prosecutors say the Israeli private investigator targeted critics of Big Oil.
He denies it. Now he'll face trial and possibly 45 years in prison. Read the full story:

Climate Gaslighting: When big ad and PR agencies help Big Oil and Gas sell a false message that "you can't live without us."

📍 NEW 📍 For a century, oil companies dredged wetlands and dumped toxic wastewater into the Louisiana Gulf Coast marshes. Now, the Supreme Court will hear a case to hold oil giants accountable. buff.ly/J0nUASP @emdashsanders @exxonknews #LouisianaGulf #oilwells

🔴 NEW - The SNP’s Oil Executive Holyrood Candidate The party has put forward a senior Equinor figure to stand in Shetland. @danielshailer.bsky.social

🚨 NEW 🚨`DeSmog reveals how developers are prevailing upon officials in Pennsylvania to clear the way for massive data centres despite vocal opposition from residents defending their communities from the AI boom. buff.ly/DDAboxv

For years, these majority Black Louisiana communities have watched industrial polluters move onto lands shaped by slavery and lost loved ones to cancer. Now, a major civil rights case tying slavery’s legacy to Cancer Alley has reached a new phase. Dive into the photos + history 👉

🔴 NEW 🔴 Europe’s Waterways Under Threat from Mining Lobby Industry meetings w/ EU officials tripled ahead of release of EU Commission strategy doc pledging to 'review and revise' the Water Framework Directive 📝 by @rachelsherrington.bsky.social w/ @euobserver.com www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...

📍 NEW 📍 Wars in Iran and Ukraine are fueling a boom for U.S. LNG exporters in Louisiana. But residents don’t see a dime of those profits as much of that money then flows out of Louisiana to investors overseas. Read DeSmog's latest: buff.ly/k59VhNz

Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent, writes @desmog.com's @rtakver.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🌎 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My new PoliticsJoe interview on Farage, his funders, the Gorton and Denton by-election, and plenty more 👇🏻