Climate Denial Archives

Faecbook is promoting climate denial and fossil fueled fascism.

Facebook lies are melting the planet. Sign now to protect Meta’s transparency tools.

by DrewAction, allies, Home May 8, 2024May 8, 20240 comments

With millions of users Facebook has a fundamental obligation to promote transparency, fairness, and combat misinformation like climate and election denial. But Meta — which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads — has proposed shutting down a key transparency tool called CrowdTangle just weeks before the 2024 election! Meta has a history of failing to shut …

Climate denial threatens our ability to act on climate

Is social media giant Meta spying on you for fossil fuel fascists?

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 6, 2023August 7, 20231 comment

By this point, you probably know that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and now Threads, spends a lot of time spying on you. Chronicled in books like The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and the Netflix docu-drama The Social Dilemma, the problem of social media spying on us, selling our personal information to unscrupulous …

Media and big tech are lying about climate denial

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 5, 2023July 5, 2023Comments are Disabled

It’s no secret that, for years, climate denial has been running rampant online and in the media. Newspapers, cable networks, and especially social media companies, have been taking huge sums of money from the fossil fuel industry to spread disinformation and misinformation on climate change. In exchange, policy gets stalled, voters are confused and misled, …

President Biden and Puerto Rican Governor Pierluisi in front of a super imposed image of Huricaine Fiona and a flooded street

Puerto Rico needs a reliable, clean, electric grid – not hugs and prayers.

by DrewAction, allies, Home October 5, 2022October 5, 20221 comment

President Biden made a welcome and empathetic trip to Puerto Rico this week. No paper towels were thrown. Don’t get me wrong, Biden is doing a much better job at disaster recovery than the defeated fossil fueled fascist Trump. But Puerto Rico needs more than prayers and empathy, they need a functioning power grid that’s …

DePlatform FOX News, and take back the cable airwaves for climate justice.

by DrewAction, allies, Home February 20, 2022February 21, 20222 comments

FOX News lies. A lot. FOX News lies about climate change, about the pandemic, and about elections and democracy. But while freedom of speech guarantees FOX News the right to say hateful, dangerous, untrue things – freedom of the press does not require us to pay them for the privilege. But that’s exactly what happens …

The names and addresses of the people who made Hurricane Ida worse

by DrewAction, allies, Home August 30, 2021August 31, 20211 comment

On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, another climate-fueled superstorm — Ida — hit the Louisiana coast just outside New Orleans. It’s one of the strongest storms in recorded history, but it wont be the last. While those with the means are escaping, those without in New Orleans, especially poor, black, brown and indigenous …

Big Tech is wrecking the climate, and your newsfeed

by DrewAction, allies July 19, 2021July 19, 2021Comments are Disabled

False claims about the climate crisis – like that climate change is a hoax – are spreading rapidly across social media. But big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google are still resisting the call from politicians and the public to constrain their power to shape the public narrative on everything from climate change to …

Frontlines to DC Build back Fossil Free!

From DAPL to Line 3 RSVP to #BuildBackFossilFree

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 27, 2021March 27, 2021Comments are Disabled

It’s no joke: On April first, frontline Indigenous youth and organizers from the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipeline fights will travel to Washington D.C. to demand that President Biden Build Back Fossil Free by stopping these climate-destroying projects. We are calling all water protectors, land defenders, climate activists and friends to join us at …

Show up now to Defund Line 3

by DrewAction, allies, Home March 12, 20211 comment

As most of you know, the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota is a disaster for our climate and a gross violation Indigenous and treaty rights. For weeks, courageous activists on the front line have taken daily direct action to stop the construction of Line 3, including locking themselves inside sections of pipe, blockading …

Tell Joe Biden: People Power, Not Pipelines

Digital rally to tell Joe Biden: Stop Line 3 & DAPL! People power, not Pipelines!

by DrewAction, allies February 24, 2021February 24, 20212 comments

When Joe Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, we were elated. After years of fighting this tar sands pipeline, we finally had a President who understood the need to act – and took decisive action on his first day in office. But KXL wasn’t the only tar sands pipeline we need to stop. KXL’s twin …