Much of the climate movement is pouring its energies into combating disinformation. This focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what's needed to win public support

grue@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Much of the climate movement is pouring its energies into combating disinformation. This focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what's needed to win public support

Media Bias Fact Checker@lemmy.world · 10 months ago

Jacobin - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)

Information for Jacobin:

MBFC: Left - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source

Search topics on Ground.News

https://jacobin.com/2024/08/climate-disinformation-green-transition-workers

Media Bias Fact Check | bot support

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 10 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 · edit-2 10 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.

Much of the climate movement is pouring its energies into combating disinformation. This focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what's needed to win public support

Much of the climate movement is pouring its energies into combating disinformation. This focus fails to address real concerns about a green transition and obscures what's needed to win public support

Obsessing Over Climate Disinformation Is a Wrong Turn