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Statement from CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, in response to EU's $140M fine on X for transparency issues — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH European regulators issued X a $140M fine for transparency issues. Read CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed’s statement on the decision.

🗣️"X has tried to hide how it manipulates the algorithm and empowers hostile states, scammers & extremists.

Now, European regulators have confirmed that this behavior is unlawful, and that transparency is not optional if X wishes to continue doing business in Europe.”

Read our full statement👇

Elon Musk's X Hit With $140M Fine Over 'Deceptive' Blue Checkmark Design EU regulators also reprimanded the social media company for its lack of ad transparency and failure to provide researchers with access to data.

🚨Today, the European Commission hit Elon Musk's X with a fine for trying to evade transparency by shutting off data access for researchers.

“No tech platform is above the laws all corporations have to abide by in Europe. "

Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @cnet.com 👇

@hennavirkkunen.bsky.social ky.social spells it out plain & simple: “Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, hiding ad info, and blocking researchers have no place online. The DSA protects users, empowers researchers, and restores trust. With this first non-compliance decision, X is held accountable.”

Big news from the EU: Social platform X hit with €120M fine for “deceptive design.”
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COP30 Reportback: A New Direction for the Ad Industry on Climate Change Something big happened in Brazil this November, and advertising was at the heart of it. ​COP30 will be remembered as the ‘COP of Truth’ by global leaders. Advertising’s role in pioneering cultural…

🌍 The “COP of Truth” put advertising's role in decarbonisation & info integrity at the centre of the talks, creating new expectations for the creative industry on climate.

@cleancreatives.bsky.social breaks down what that turning point means ⬇️

The fossil fuel industry is powerful, but so are we!

We’ve had big wins 👉 made the climate crisis a major issue on political agendas, shown how Big Oil is responsible, pushed leaders on climate action, & championed renewable energy projects for our communities.

We’ll keep up the fight in 2026!

Australia: Analysis of published political donation data showed that Australia’s fossil fuel industry giants, including Woodside, Santos, Chevron & Adani, were joined by several of the industry’s major lobby groups in gifting a combined $3.8 million to Labor, Liberals & the Nationals parties.

Fossil fuel companies and the institutions that support them have been using 💻 ads & the🗞️ media to influence everything from national elections to the outcomes of the UN climate summit #COP for years!

We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇

“We cannot allow fossil fuel lobbyists to turn the European Parliament into a playground for manufactured extremism. Europeans should be alarmed that oil & gas giants are effectively outsourcing their political strategy to a firm whose business model depends on driving wedges.”

‘Divide and Conquer’: Inside the Oil and Gas Strategy to Thwart EU Green Laws A public relations firm for major U.S. polluters worked to dismantle EU laws that require large corporations to make plans for cutting emissions. The PR company Teneo undertook its work on behalf of…

🚨 New from @Desmog.com: US oil and gas giants have been running a “divide and conquer” campaign with PR firm Teneo and far right allies to gut the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

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Why Platforms Don’t Catch Climate Misinformation — and How to Change That | TechPolicy.Press While most Americans believe that climate change is real and human-caused, online misinformation continues to erode public trust in climate science.

📢 Climate misinformation is still getting a free pass from platforms when we can least afford it.

@techpolicypress.bsky.social is calling out the weak enforcement and offering concrete fixes so climate truth is the default, not the exception.

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Corporate Advocacy on the UN Global Plastics Treaty - 2025 InfluenceMap Update New analysis of business engagement with the INC-5.2 Global Plastics Treaty negotiations reveals how intense chemical and petrochemical industry lobbying preceded the collapse of negotiations.

📄 New research from @influencemap.bsky.social shows how the narratives pushed by chemical and petrochemical lobbyists in the run up to and during the August 2025 negotiations helped derail the UN Global Plastics Treaty talks altogether.

Visual thinking: the strategy that could help you spot misinformation and manipulated images We are entering an era where seeing is no longer believing.

👁️ From AI generated images to out of context photos, we need new habits to spot visual misinformation.

“Visual thinking” offers a practical way to question what we see instead of just scrolling past.

via @uk.theconversation.com

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due…

🚨 New analysis from @somoamsterdam.bsky.social exposes a secretive cabal of US polluters working to rewrite the EU’s human rights and climate law in the name of “competitiveness”.

‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.

🔎 @desmog.com's investigation exposes how Exxon quietly bankrolled Atlas Network think tanks to spread climate denial across the Global South and undermine early UN climate treaties, with impacts that still shape COP politics today.
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Big Oil and ‘the playbook of climate obstruction’ | The Listening Post As the COP30 climate summit in Belem wrapped up this week, we spoke with UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights Elisa Morgera about a major barrier to real climate action:…

📺 Al Jazeera spoke to UN Special Rapporteur on climate change and human rights Elisa Morgera about a major barrier to real climate action: disinformation.

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10 Climate Change Myths Debunked There are a lot of myths being repeated. How to refute them.

Climate misinformation is everywhere. This guide equips journalists (and anyone around the Thanksgiving dinner table) to recognize and refute key myths and report the truth.

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are a “benefit to the planet”. Lord Maurice…

🔥 Labour’s ‘Blue Labour’ peer Maurice Glasman just gave the UK’s main climate science denial group its headline lecture, calling net zero a “fantasy” and putting coal “back on the table” while advising No 10.

The new report from Climate Litigation Network charts the impact of a decade of climate cases.

Read it here 👉 climatelitigationnetwork.org/TenYearsClim...

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security

“This event is about resetting the national conversation, especially in the face of growing misinformation.”

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Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

Excellent coverage of exactly the problem we face 35 years into the effort to face #climatechange:

"a decades-long disinformation bombardment.," as @whitehouse.senate.gov put it.

Now on solutions--see work by Climate Action Against Disinformation groups
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Exposed: 531 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) lobbyists at COP30 climate summit in Brazil The CCS lobbyists received more COP30 passes than any other single nation registered at COP30, except the host country. More passes than 62 national delegations combined. CCS has a decades-long…

📈 Analysis from @ciel_tweets found 531 carbon capture and storage lobbyists gained access to COP30 climate talks – that's more passes than 62 national delegations combined.

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New Climate Denial? Comedian Rasheda Crockett explains it Climate deniers are changing their strategy to delay climate action. Watch comedian Rasheda Crockett translate “New Climate Denial.”

👀 New climate denial shifts tactics to delay action while platforms look the other way.

In this new video with comedian Rasheda Crockett, @counterhate.com breaks down how “new climate denial” spreads on social media and why platforms must stop amplifying it.

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🦾 🌍 Legal academics believe that the recent greenwashing Court win against TotalEnergies we supported could pave the way for the public in Africa to hold corporations accountable.

More here: theconversation.com/totalenergie...

Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture An influential Labour peer has been criticised for being the star speaker at the UK’s main climate science denial group, which says carbon emissions are a “benefit to the planet”. Lord Maurice…

🚨 New from @desmog.com: Labour Group Slams Lord Glasman Over Climate Denial Lecture.

The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture.

COP30 Reportback: A New Direction for the Ad Industry on Climate Change · Luma Something big happened in Brazil this November, and advertising was at the heart of it. COP30 will be remembered as the ‘COP of Truth’ by global leaders.…

Join us for "COP30 Reportback: A New Direction for the Ad Industry on Climate Change".

Hear how agencies & brands are responding to COP30’s “COP of Truth” and what this means for future work.

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Absolutely wild to see hosts on Talk TV brazenly wave off the scientific consensus on climate change as 'just not true…a made-up stat' 🤦‍♂️😖

Companies who pay to advertise on Talk TV are enabling this kind of dangerous disinformation. Tell them to do better!

Brazil to Consult Scientists, Industry on Fossil Fuel Roadmap Studies backing Brazil's roadmap involve international agencies, scientists, and representatives from the fossil fuel industry.

COP30 ended w/o a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels but that won't stop the momentum from growing. It's not the urgent phase-out we need but still a welcome start:

https://earth.org/brazil-to-consult-scientists-and-industry-on-fossil-fuel-phase-out-roadmap/

Corporate broadcast news combined covered this year’s COP30 global climate summit for less than 3 minutes — cable networks covered it for just over 3 hours Research/Study Research/Study

📺 New from @mmfa.bsky.social: Corporate broadcast news covered this year’s COP30 global climate summit for 2 minutes — cable networks covered it for just over 3 hours.
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MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing 'Misleading' Claims EU taxpayers are funding a multi-year campaign blitz which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy while featuring bizarre and misleading claims. Since 2017, the…

🔎 MEPs are calling for a review of a €1.5 Billion EU Food scheme with ‘misleading’ claims

“The food environment is already very negative in Europe & the European Commission should take its responsibility to protect citizens, animals & our environment seriously.”

via @desmog.com