BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

“I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC,” the Secretary of Defense declared as he discussed sensitive military operations with senior White House officials in a group chat to which the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine had been mistakenly added.

Wildest story I’ve read in a goodly while. Armando Iannucci himself could never.

WHAT www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

So far the documents from the investigations into climate disinformation seem to be online still, but if they're taken down (as the first ones were), we've got them available for you at Drilled: 1st round: drilled.media/documents/5e... 2024: drilled.media/documents/82...

When extreme weather hits, misinformation often follows. Flash floods in Valencia, Spain, sparked baseless claims that "HAARP" was responsible. @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social explores the origins of these claims & how misinformation can undermine climate action.

🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉

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

It's so cool how quickly this filled up. Update your follows and click follow all! Women VS Disinfo! A huge selection of expert researchers, fact checkers, journalists, debunkers, science communicators, academics, vloggers, etc. of all things Disinfo / Conspiracy go.bsky.app/FFCjgks

Trump: "We don't want windmills in this country. We're putting an order on it. I've already sort of done it. We don't want windmills ... you know what else people don't like? Those massive solar fields."

NEW DATA: 📈German electricity generation from renewable energy reached record share of 62.7% in 2024. 📉Since 2014, CO2 emissions from electricity generation have halved.

"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

NEW ANALYSIS: Right-leaning UK newspaper editorials have relentlessly attacked energy secretary Ed Miliband since last year's election, calling him "hysterical", a "madman" & "demented" The papers have also published a record number of editorials opposing climate action… 1/2

A city awakes.

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

How do you make good journalism succeed on platforms that reward the qualities of MrBeast videos? You do not, as we’ve found. The news content that performs well on social media is increasingly further-removed from the standards valued by traditional newsrooms

The dynamics between journalism, social media content creation, and the media industry are not as simple as people make them out to be (journalists can influence, influencers can do journalism), but one thing for certain is that traditional media orgs cannot be saved by becoming influencers

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation. Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

PS fact checks don’t suppress speech, fact checks are actually MORE SPEECH. /end

Let’s be clear—the fact checkers have not “been” politically biased as Zuck suggests, but have been *perceived as such* because of politically motivated efforts to smear them, one that Zuck is now participating in and capitulating to. 1/

I know we’ve become numbed by each new crisis on social media, each capitulation from Silicon Valley to bad faith actors. Even so, this Zuck statement is a disaster. Watch it in full to understand what’s at stake and how regulation like the DSA is in real jeopardy. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=152...

🚨 OPSEC ALERT 🚨 Thanks to @byrontau.bsky.social (via my brother) for flagging this - details on how to deactivate/opt out on all iOS devices can be found under the tagged post. @eff.org

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!

The California grid ran on 100% renewables with no blackouts or cost rises for parts of a record 98 out of 116 days (and 132 days all year) in 2024 electrek.co/2024/12/31/c... @electrek.co @michelledlewis.bsky.social Here's the paper: web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Let’s see how fast we can get her to shoot up the most blocked rankings. Remember that folks like her are here to mine us for nasty comments so they can run back to Twitter and use us as an example of their oppression. She’s knows we hate her. We don’t have to give her content and ammunition.

I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

Really enjoyed recording this episode with Gavin Esler for @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social. We covered a lot - extreme weather, fossil fuel ad bans, lobbyists at COP, public engagement, corporate (mis)behaviour, how to weaken the disinfo economy and more! 🧪 💡 🔌 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Really enjoyed recording this episode with Gavin Esler for @thisisnotadrillpod.bsky.social. We covered a lot - extreme weather, fossil fuel ad bans, lobbyists at COP, public engagement, corporate (mis)behaviour, how to weaken the disinfo economy and more! 🧪 💡 🔌 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a reporter to cover climate change as an investigative beat, examining how decisions by individuals, corporations and governments are shaping life-and-death outcomes for people across the U.S. and the world. Details, including salary range, 👇

Optimist: the cup is ½ full Pessimist: the cup is ½ empty Proponent of dangerously incorrect carbon accounting: half of the cup has water in it, and the other half has avoided water in it. Therefore, the cup has achieved net zero water.

hey if any funders are wondering "what can i do to help climate journalism" the answer is probably "make sure funds are available for almost-certain upcoming legal challenges to the investigative reporters already working" not "start a new thing entirely that we can control"

We've put together a starter pack of our coalition members. Follow climate experts, share accurate information, and join our community in countering disinformation.

An All-Star roster of climate scientists cleared their throats recently and it was something to behold. Their message to Net-Zero experts in every sector? You're Doing It Wrong 🧪 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1) The simplest answer is just... vibes. Bots (and trolls) are vibe pollution. If you flood an internet space with algorithmic hate and cruelty, then people tend to have a bad time. They leave or lock their comments or disconnect from the internet entirely. Over time, this can break online spaces.

You should learn to recognize this kind of cruelty spam the same as you do any other spam - it's just another scam, but instead of fishing for your personal info or credit card number, they're fishing for your engagement and anger.

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate. The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

I’m sorry, almost *1 in 10 U.S. journalists work at the NYTimes?* Not because of its size, but because so many other newspapers have died? That is…wild. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

NEW – Interview: Prof Philippe Sands on UN court’s landmark climate-change hearing | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @philippesands.bsky.social Read here ⬇️

THREAD: How to check if the screenshot of a social media post is real or fake? Fake screnshots of online posts regularly mislead people. So, here's a simple guide on how you can quickly check if a screenshot of a post attributed to an account is genuine or fake before falling for or sharing it.

Climate disinformation has a home and that home begins and ends with the letter X. Meet: Wide Awake Media

Our partners at @caadcoalition.bsky.social just launched a big report on how gen-AI expansion is killing climate goals at Google, Microsoft and Nvidia. Well worth a read! If you’re short on time, there’s also a tl;dr press release via the link below. #greensky 🧪 💡 🔌 caad.info/analysis/rep...

Our partners at @caadcoalition.bsky.social just launched a big report on how gen-AI expansion is killing climate goals at Google, Microsoft and Nvidia. Well worth a read! If you’re short on time, there’s also a tl;dr press release via the link below. #greensky 🧪 💡 🔌 caad.info/analysis/rep...

A bumper new @caadcoalition.bsky.social report out today examining how projections, rhetoric and fossil economy dynamics mean big tech's thirst for chatbots = guaranteed climate harm. (happy to have helped the team there w/ some of the data and research) caad.info/analysis/bri...

“A study in the journal Science found that if you want disinfo to go viral online, making people furious might be your best bet… …it suggests fact-checks or reminders to consider accuracy before sharing may not be effective in curbing viral rumors or hoaxes that play on people’s moral indignation.”

Tag yourself - I’m “bringing about a freak era”.

Here's some thoughts from me about how to keep dark money out of British politics, and why it's urgent to do it now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 BREAKING: 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered for #PlasticsTreaty talks — outnumbering every single delegation at #INC5. Their goal? Protect polluters’ profits. #KickPollutersOut 👉🏽 Full story: bit.ly/3B36xFM