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(Translated from French) Emmanuel Vincent points out that, as early as the 1970s and 1980s, the oil industry knew that burning fossil fuels was causing global warming but chose to wage campaigns to “sow doubt in order to protect their profits.”
RFI
(Translated from French) Measuring – scientifically – this amplification of dubious publications remains a challenge, given the opaque workings of digital services. A group of civil society organizations is attempting to meet this challenge through the SIMODS research project…
Euractiv
Emmanuel Vincent, lead author and founder of Science Feedback, hit out at the platforms for failing to label AI-generated content while monetising accounts that spread it.
TV5 Monde
(translated from French) Beyond the denial of climate science itself, an increasing amount of misinformation targets solutions to curb climate change, such as renewable energies, electric vehicles, and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Euronews
Terroille said another Russian method is to fabricate pages that look like well-known Western media outlets and spread them on X.
He added that fake news about public health and misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines are still running, among other topics, such as misinformation about the environment and are “absolutely weaponised” by Russia.
Le Monde
(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.
Euronews
This is the first comprehensive, data-driven evidence that climate disinformation is widespread not just on social media but also in the mainstream media. The news we read and digest actively shapes public understanding and trust, so knowing what information is being shared is crucial.
CNN
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.
TV5 Monde
(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.
Wired Italia
(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.