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    • Le Monde
    Posted on:  2025-04-10

    Climate disinformation thrives in some of the French audiovisual media

    (Translated from French) Climate disinformation is no longer the sole domain of social networks but is also becoming ‘normalized’ in a part of the French audiovisual media. This is the main conclusion of a study published by Science Feedback, Data for Good and QuotaClimat, three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) specializing in the analysis of media coverage of ecological issues.

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    • Logo of CNN CNN
    Posted on:  2025-01-08

    Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’

    Science Feedback, another one of Meta’s fact-checking partners, said “the public faces an ever-growing risk of being misled by powerful actors prioritizing their own interests over the well-being of their audience or the public good.”

    Science Feedback recently published an analysis finding that X’s community notes system failed to address “most of the misinformation identified by fact-checkers on the platform” around last year’s European Parliament elections.

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    • TV5 Monde
    Posted on:  2024-11-16

    Climate: denial, fake news? climate disinformation is gaining ground

    (translated from French) Climate denying influencers and certain political leaders are spreading false information. How can we combat this type of misinformation? We discussed with Marie-Eve Carignan, professor at the University of Sherbrook and Emmanuel Vincent, founder and executive director of Science Feedback.

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    • Wired Italia
    Posted on:  2024-08-28

    On Facebook, Russian media don’t care about European sanctions

    (translated from Italian) There are 52 pages and accounts of Russian media and individuals on Facebook, with a total of more than 3.9 million followers, which, despite having been sanctioned by the European Union after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, are still currently accessible to European citizens. This is according to a report published on July 31 by the Alliance for Europe and Science Feedback, two organizations that are part of the Counter Disinformation Network and specialize in analyzing online disinformation campaigns.

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    • The New York Times
    Posted on:  2024-06-10

    ‘Convergence of Anger’ Drives Disinformation Around E.U. Elections

    A report this week from two fact-checking groups, Newtral in Spain and Science Feedback in France, tracked false narratives in six languages that were linked to the farmer protests. There were unfounded claims that the European Union was deliberately destroying crop fields, forcing reductions in agricultural production and trying to replace farmers with A.I. robots. The claims appeared to resonate with audiences far more than general climate criticism did, researchers said.

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    • DPA (German Press Agency)
    Posted on:  2024-01-10

    La banquise arctique en déclin depuis les années 80

    « Il est important de comprendre que la glace de mer, en tant qu’indicateur du changement climatique, fluctue d’une année à l’autre », explique Stephen Bell, rédacteur scientifique pour le réseau international Climate Feedback, créé pour lutter contre la désinformation climatique.

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    • Rappler
    Posted on:  2023-02-16

    They’re getting smarter: How disinformation peddlers avoid regulation

    Does Facebook’s method work? A study done by Science Feedback said yes, but only to a certain extent. Facebook’s interventions on accounts that repeatedly share disinformation and misinformation results in reduced engagement on posts that violate community standards. However, the study found that this did not change the behavior of repeat offenders in the long run.

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    • RFI (Radio France internationale)
    Posted on:  2022-11-18

    Science versus climate misinformation

    While COP27 goes into overtime and should officially end this Saturday, November 19, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, climate disinformation is in full swing on the networks. The fake news fraudulently tries to oppose an ideology in the face of a scientific consensus on global warming.
    Guests:
    – Eric Guilyardi, research director at CNRS, co-editor of the 5th IPCC report
    – Emmanuel Vincent, doctor in Climatology and founder of the NGO Science Feedback.

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