The seemingly disparate issues of AI intimate image abuse, attacks on climate action, the undermining of democracy and rising polarisation are becoming more acute. A major reason? The central economic model of the internet. Advertising. The climate part: www.outrageandoptimism.org/episodes/fol...

“There is now increasing recognition that we will not be able to achieve internationally agreed climate goals unless we address behaviours in information spaces that are being harnessed to undermine climate action.” Charlotte Scaddan of the United Nations www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

The price of eggs just about to go through the roof…

Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders

If this proves to be arson then this is awful. Setting cars on fire is putting people in danger. People can protest or choose not to buy a Tesla but obviously this crosses a line.

Net zero economy growing by 10%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Free speech latest… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

This is predictably disappointing. Is this a mandate to bake bias into AI? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A total failure of the advertising system. No transparency. Advertisers must have a right to understand what they are buying. Great work by the @checkmyads.org team @ariellesgarcia.bsky.social www.adweek.com/media/ad-buy...

Cannot wait to hear from Meta, TikTok and Google talking about ‘brand safety’ at the Advertising Association LEAD conference. Are they ‘leading’ or following? I bet there is no time for audience questions. I would have a few…

Which companies that rely on ‘natural resources’ will go bust in the next 10 years? Coffee companies? Water? Cereals? Chocolate? Wine?

"These are climate change fires…The scientific literature on this is unambiguous.” -Prof. Donald Falk, Univ of Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Another Brexit Benefit for British Business TM. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Excellent from @pallavis.bsky.social on the failure to deal properly with climate disinfo designed to delay climate action. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

This is going to be the case everywhere in the world susceptible to extreme weather caused by climate change. It is just so obvious that insurers will stop insuring, otherwise they will go bust.

🚨New from The Guardian: "Climate crisis can’t be ignored, yet UK voters are being pushed by inaction towards a party that denies its existence" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coverage of the disturbing new research from our tech accountability colleagues in Denmark: out of 85 items of prohibited self-harm content, Instagram didn’t moderate a single one. It underscores why we’ve been calling for tougher regulation here www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

"Many children will not be protected from harmful suicide and self-harm content when regulation comes in because tech companies are failing to enforce their own rules" - @mollyroseorg.bsky.social @andyburrows.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.” www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

Great starter pack for those in marketing, advertising and measurement from the excellent @alextait.bsky.social go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj

I've created this starter pack for (potentially) interesting accounts to following in marketing, commerce and measurement. I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky. go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj

Brazil has a gargantuan job to pick up the pieces from the rubble of this COP.

To put the just-agreed New Collective Quantified Goal at COP29 in some context... $300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035" $2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023 That's EIGHT TIMES larger

Finally. But not good enough…

The lack of progress at COP and delays to climate action can, in a pretty large way, be attributed to a total pollution of our information environment. Brilliant piece by @bberwyn.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

If this is true then 😱😱😱

"Disinformation Threatens Climate Action, UN Warns" by @bberwyn.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...

Few people know this: half of the world's energy use is for heat used in buildings and industry. And almost all of it is from burning fossil fuels. That's why we need to decarbonise heat if we want to stand a chance of meeting our climate targets.

How big will the climate settlements be?

We have had a press briefing with senior police officers and commissioners about the ongoing investigations into the riots that followed the Southport attack Here are the key updates: 🚨1,590 arrests, 1,015 charges 👮‍♂️17% of those arrested were children, 46% were 18-35 years old

Conscious Advertising Network’s Alex Murray on stage with the UN at the COP29 launch of the Brazilian led Climate Information Integrity Initiative @caadcoalition.bsky.social

Ayyyyy #Brazilsky what's good? Lula: O chefe de Estado brasileiro também considerou que "na luta pela sobrevivência" não há lugar para "negadocionismo" e "desinformação" "in the struggle for survival" there is no place for "negacionism" and "disinformation." www.pagina12.com.ar/783818-lula-...

Great to see governments and the UN stepping up to deal with climate disinfo and drive information integrity at this crucial time…https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/information-integrity

I don’t get why more economists and CFOs are not more engaged in climate. The basic economics of supply and demand do not work. Earth cannot supply what the economy demands. The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Earth. Friedman’s doctrine of the primacy of shareholder profit denies reality.

“The digitization of the information realm and the accelerated evolution of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), has dramatically impacted the speed, scale and reach of misinformation and disinformation, hate speech and other forms of online harms.” #g20 www.gov.br/planalto/pt-...

I've thrown together a Starter Pack for the climate crisis-info crisis overlap. Lots of members from @caadcoalition.bsky.social, so do give them a follow. It's a work in progress, @ me if you'd like to be included! 🧪 🔌 💡 (@davidrvetter.bsky.social ask and ye shall receive...) go.bsky.app/J3783tF

I’ve been listening to wild examples of climate disinfo in Brazil during the G20. Like in the UK and the US, disinfo is designed for reach and attention. In the @caadcoalition.bsky.social report before COP we found that wildfires were being blamed on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’ and arson by the WEF 1/

‘There is no climate crisis’ The new US Energy Secretary everyone… www.linkedin.com/posts/chris-...

Looking for forward to speaking about the work of the Conscious Advertising Network and ACT Climate Labs challenging climate disinformation and supporting Information Integrity at the G20 in Rio tomorrow.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders at the COP29 Climate Summit they must take immediate steps to cut emissions, safeguard people from climate chaos, & “tear down the walls to climate finance” in response to the 2024 “masterclass in climate destruction”. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Allow me to comment: this is very bad

The Global Carbon Budget out today predicts emissions will rise 0.8% this year, meaning we have not yet peaked 🏔️❌ While our expectations for renewables were actually surpassed, this wasn't enough to bring emissions down. We delve into why 🧵⤵️ climateanalytics.org/comment/new-...

Just imagine what'll happen if there's another pandemic and you have this anti-vaxxer at the top of HHS.

Nearly 100 experts+orgs sign open letter calling on governments to act on climate disinformation- including @michaelemann.bsky.social, @geoffreysupran.bsky.social, @maibached.bsky.social, @lewan.bsky.social and a ton more! caad.network/analysis/unc...

"We, the undersigned...call on governments worldwide to take immediate and decisive action to address this crisis" of climate disinformation. Honoured to be a co-signatory on this open letter, thanks to @caadcoalition.bsky.social for coordinating.

🚨 As world leaders gather for #COP29 climate negotiations in Baku, with the #G20 Summit in Brazil fast approaching, a group of 51 orgs and 42 climate & information integrity experts are calling for action to address climate disinformation. Read the full letter here:

The absolutely extortionate prices for food in drink in #COP29Baku would be almost funny, if it was not wildly unfair on those from poor nations and on very limited budgets, trying to get their voices heard ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The John Lewis Christmas ad will like get more coverage in the UK than COP29. A perfect encapsulation of how consumption dominates our free fall into the deepening climate crisis.

The call by Exxon CEO Darren Woods keep the US in the Paris climate accords shows just how much oil majors are profiting from so-called climate subsidies and solutions