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Posted on: 2024-09-24

European Union: Sanctioned Russian media entities and individuals’ content accessible on Telegram

Report co-author: Saman Nazari, Alliance4Europe This report is the fifth in a series looking at major online platforms’ enforcement of…

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- Climate
Posted on: 2024-11-13
Climate vs. weather: a deep dive on the key differences

A key difference is their timescales by which they’re defined: weather is monitored over days to weeks, and climate typically over decades or more. Online claims that use anecdotal evidence to claim that these climate changes are ‘normal’ either in the context of ‘when they grew up’ or as part of the ‘natural cycle’ are inaccurate.
- Climate
Posted on: 2024-06-28
Sea-level rise: to mitigate or adapt? Experts say we need to do both.

Roughly 900 million people lived in low-lying coastal cities and settlements in 2020; a figure that is projected to reach 1 billion by 2050. Is there anything we can do now to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts? Our past actions will already impact sea-levels for thousands of years. But not everything is set in stone. We possess the power to reduce sea-level rise and its impacts over the next century and beyond with our current actions. Some advocate to mitigate the causes, and others to adapt to the consequences. But what do experts say?
- Health
Posted on: 2024-06-24
How fears of parasites drive viral claims for detoxes and cleanses

Removing parasites from the body is a recurring theme in health misinformation on social media. These posts misleadingly suggest that…