About climate, justice and disinformation in 2025. Facebook-driven fact-checking scheme was always flawed by the conflict of interest between the platform's business model and PR damage control through funding to some media outlets.

President of Paraguay just had a meeting with a representative from The Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025 and key player in climate and gender disinformation. This is happening as its own senators try to push him closer to Trump. consen.so/p/paraguay-e...

André Corrêa do Lago, viejo conocido de quienes cubrimos las negociaciones climáticas, será el presidente de la COP30. Entre algunos detalles, es un vocero importante del uso de biocombustibles como parte de la transición energética.

Watching Latin Americans celebrate Trump's exit from the Paris Agreement is fascinating. Our countries suffer millions of dollars in losses due to climate phenomena that are the responsibility of the United States - and the Paris Agreement guarantees at least some justice in this regard.

7 out of 10 Paraguayans live in a place where the local government does not have policies to mitigate or adapt to the impacts of climate change. Data from new Consen.so analysis while the country suffers an unprecedented heat wave.

With Bing now also deleting the capacity of searching for cache version of websites - like Google before them - online research is becoming a little more harder by the day. Enshittification at its finest.

This is a very important point. The perception of a biased attitude of social media platforms is just that and it's fueled by the fact that right-wing movements have built an ecosystem of misinformation / hyperpartisan information that usually doesn't stand any serious journalistic scrutiny.

Contrario a quienes creen que es un derecho decir cualquier estupidez, la eliminación del fact-checking en Meta nos deja sin uno de los pocos mecanismos de moderación de la plataforma que si tenía reglas claras. La moderación que sigue es la que está dictada por intereses privados y opacos.

I wrote this article about the impact on Latam media and users of Meta's decision to end its fact-checking program. Also a more in-depth critique of the relationship between media and Big Tech in the face of climate, justice and misinformation in 2025. consen.so/p/el-derecho...

Disinformation on social media is not a bug, but an inherent part of the economics of attention.

Breaking News: Meta said it would end its fact-checking program and rely instead on Facebook and Instagram users to add notes or corrections to posts. The move is likely to please the incoming Trump administration and its conservative allies.

Meta's defunding of its fact-checking initiative shows that the policy of “journalism incentives” was always a PR move. Many media fell - out of necessity or ideology - into a system that, as colleagues in Brazil know, never protected fact-checkers from harassment.

Eucalyptus plantations are the new climate solution in Paraguay - a solution funded by european public money with carbon markets in mind. But new solutions come with old conflicts, as an investigation shows how these plantations use PFOs or "forever chemicals" banned in Europe.

Thanks to @desmog.bsky.social for citing my reporting on Consen.so about the lobby from Big Ag to change the methane metrics in Paraguay. www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/i...

Hello #climate people! Latam journo here. I'm looking for some experts on GHG inventories to tackle some questions regarding the latest BTR from Argentina, Paraguay and Ecuador. If have some experience about the shortcomings of GTP metrics, better. Thank you in advance.

I took a small break from my time off to see the new reports of GHG in South America and... Eureka! Paraguay for the first time recognized the "possible overstimation" of carbon capture by soils, forests and eucalyptus plantations. Big issue for our NDCs.

I’m obsessed with communication. Expression is my life. But… Someone in prison found a way to communicate with us via an act of care. Every time I’ve gotten my hair cut or done, I know I’ve been cared for. A prisoner made sure Luigi walked out looking good because they know image communicates.

So today I have a little bit a good news! After our investigation into the lithium rush in Paraguay affecting indigenous lands the govt officially started to review the mining permits! And not only that, but they are doing it using the methodology we created! consen.so/p/litio-lice...

In a related note, this year I know of a LATAM disinformation project that had to shut-down because of fears of SLAPPs and harassment.

Our special coverage on how heat affected the Copa América 2024 in the US is officially at the top of articles in Consen.so this year. By using public data and OSINT tools, we tracked at least 8 games played with dangerous temperatures, including one where a referee collapsed by a heatstroke.

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

Behind the lithium rush in Paraguay. We published an EN version of the Consen.so investigation shows that least one lithium concession granted by the govt is in indigenous land - without consent of the community. www.theparaguaypost.com/p/lithium-fe...

I think a good way to introduce you to my work is this piece. A 1-year investigation about how the senator behind of the carbon credits law in Paraguay didn't disclose family and business ties with the main corporation lobbying for Article 6.2 deals with Singapore. consen.so/p/que-intere...

Article 6 nerds arise! 😇

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