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Climate misinformation is being weaponised and funded by advertising

Lord Puttnam said that we are ‘living in a world in which trust is collapsing’. Climate disinformation is being dragged into culture wars, and twisted so it’s unrecognisable. All aided and abetted by social media platform algorithms, and bankrolled by our favourite brands’ advertising. My TEDx Talk for Climate Action Tech which you can watch here.

Climate Change

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Climate misinformation is being weaponised and funded by advertising

Climate Change

1 min read

Climate misinformation is being weaponised and funded by advertising

Lord Puttnam said that we are ‘living in a world in which trust is collapsing’.

Climate disinformation is being dragged into culture wars, and twisted so it’s unrecognisable. All aided and abetted by social media platform algorithms, and bankrolled by our favourite brands’ advertising. My TEDx Talk for Climate Action Tech which you can watch here.

Published in The Startup

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AI & Advertising, A Consumer Perspective

Digital advertising is a booming industry: worth over $300 billion in 2019 alone. It’s also the primary business model sustaining the internet, humanity’s most important communications tool. But as AI-powered advertising grows more pervasive and sophisticated, it is doing so without guardrails. There are few rules to ensure it doesn’t…

Advertising

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Advertising

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Nov 12

A disinformation survival guide for COP27

It’s COP27 again, and the great and the good have gathered in Sharm-El-Sheikh to discuss how we can keep the warming of the planet to under 1.5 degrees Celsius. …

Cop 27

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Cop 27

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Sep 21

We have 18 months to fix our broken media ecosystem…

In 2024, three quarters of the world’s most populous countries will hold a major election. Billions of people will be making decisions about definitive issues affecting their countries, and who will be best suited to lead them to solutions. …

Misinformation

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We have 18 months to fix our broken media ecosystem…

Misinformation

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Jul 28

“Advertising is One of the Major Funders of Extreme and Misinformative Content”

An excerpt from my interview with Amelie Lambert for Little Black Book. You can find the rest of the interview at the link below. The Conscious Advertising Network exists to break the economic link between content that divides us, misinforms us and harms us, and advertising that is creating the…

Advertising

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Advertising

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Jul 17

Brand safety isn’t enough to stop the world getting worse

Harriet Kingaby from The Conscious Advertising Network at NextM Stockholm 2022 Please enable JavaScript to experience Vimeo in all of its glory. Conscious advertising: taking brand safety to new…vimeo.com This is my talk for The Channel Factory at NextM in Stockholm in April 2022. Click on the link above to hear it in full. In an age of ‘post truth’ and misinformation, advertisers cannot ignore their role in bank-rolling the disinformation economy. While quality news reporting, climate change and…

Advertising

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Advertising

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Published in The Conscious Advertising Network

·Jul 14, 2021

Racism in football: Letter of solidarity

To the CEOs of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, As many of us warned, the lack of adequate action by social media companies to combat online discrimination has once again left players in the public eye subject to horrendous levels of abuse. The racism that we saw directed towards England’s…

Racism

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Racism

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Jul 8, 2021

Climate Disinformation — the threat to COP26

Climate disinformation is rife, politicised, and funded by advertising from major brands. We’ve seen targeted disinformation derail conferences before — in 2018 the UN Global Compact came under attack from the far right, and the fall out was major. …

Climate Change

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Climate Disinformation — the threat to COP26

Climate Change

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·Jun 16, 2021

Four types of climate misinformation online

Why we must change the narrative on climate, before deniers do it for us At the time of writing this article, there are just under 6 months until the start of the most influential climate summit of a generation, COP 26. …

Misinformation

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Misinformation

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Published in The Conscious Advertising Network

·Apr 30, 2021

The Conscious Advertising Network is Funded!

The Conscious Advertising Network has run on volunteer power since our first meeting 3 years ago. In that time, we’ve spoken at the UN, put on sold out events, created training and manifestos that guide the industry and worked with our civil society partners to elevate the issues of hate…

Advertising

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Advertising

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