Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn
jacobin.com
Much of the climate movement is now pouring its energies into combating disinformation. But this focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what is needed to win the public over to effective climate action.
  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    3 months ago

    Only because obsessing over any single strategy is foolish. Countering oil company propaganda is and will remain important, it just can’t be the sole focus, which is a fair criticism.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 months ago

      I think stopping them from being able to shill the propaganda in the first place is sort of the point here. They are allowed to just make ads that are 100% bullshit, but as long as it doesn’t mention a product, it’s technically not an “advertisement” subject to laws (can’t be hit for false advertising, for example).

      Fucking stupid gray area.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    When people ask me why anyone would hack a public school.

    Data? Eh. Most of that’s for sale, for cheap. It’s to fuck up infrastructure and waste tax dollars. Disinformation is in the same vein.

    If you have a $1m budget to spread the word on your issue and I have $2m to spread disinformation about it, you’re fucked.