“Facebook’s AI slopaganda is the new Cambridge Analytica scandal... they knew users wouldn’t quit scrolling despite the degraded feeds because users couldn’t, as Meta deliberately chose to build an addictive product, as a jury has recently confirmed.” CAAD told @desmog.com
An AI-generated image of a UK petrol station with cars queuing in the forecourt. In the background an image of a billboard that reads "Support UK Fuel Production." Text on top of the image reads "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?" above "yes" and "no" text with the 'like' and 'heart' symbols to encourage Facebook users to 'vote'
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Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production'
My latest for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
we color eggs because jesus dyed
Or when requesting a Led Zepplin song but you wanna shoegaze
NEW: i took a look at legislation @sanders.senate.gov is intro'ing today to impose a data center moratorium “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of AI"
it's a major line in the sand for progressives looking to tie data center opposition w AI safety
For more on the dangers of native advertising, check out Dr. Amazeen's open access book, Content Confusion:
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Screenshot of the NYTimes story downplaying renewables as discussed in the post: headline says "Spain says the sun shields it from rising gas costs. Is that true?" and big red text added over the subhed says: "YES."
New on caad.info: @commscholar.bsky.social AKA Dr. Michelle Amazeen introduces Native Ad Watch for readers like you to submit examples of sponsored content for analysis!
caad.info/analysis/ins...
Just dropped: I chatted with @comatbu.bsky.social The COMversation about my book #ContentConfusion from @mitpress.bsky.social — media deception, native ads, and why media literacy matters. Quick listen:
open.spotify.com/episode/5RnV...
#commsky #booksky
At LEAST 2 million! Up to 8 million!! And maybe more if they go over estimates!!! All for chatbots that can't count fingers but can encourage suicide!!!
one google data center in virginia
two million gallons of water per day
information only released under court order & risk of contempt
Anyway, if you want to support Chase's foray into independent journalism, subscribe to his YouTube channel
Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
The "mainstream" has always just been polite code for whiteness
It’s amazing that we’ve all just had to accept that our top military leaders in time of was will only take questions from wildly partisan media outlets. LindellTV, Daily Caller, Daily Wire get called on, but no legitimate general audience or defense press outlets.
Daily Consent Manufacturers
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
Building data centres to house the AI that picks targets for war crimes that cause spikes in prices for the fossil fuels we burn to power the data centres that we keep building so the war criminals will give us tax money to build data centres to house the AI that....
In episode 854, I talk with Dr. Naomi Oreskes about her fantastic book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. #History #Economics
youtu.be/g1XYBSL5118
"llms can write social science articles better than professors now" BITCH I DONT CARE. i literally do not care because the point of people having fucking thoughts and doing research is PEOPLE HAVING THOUGHTS AND DOING RESEARCH. the point of the work is DOING THE FUCKING WORK.
I'm not saying Republicans are liars, I'm saying the AI said Republicans lie about climate change 13 times more often than Democratic Congresspeople, and it's because they're getting paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about climate change and obstruct climate action.
A California agency received 20k AI-generated comments opposing heat pump rules. Staff called a sample to verify—several said they never sent comments. Raises serious questions about the opposition campaign that helped kill the clean air standards, that would've prevented 1000s of premature deaths.
We cracked down on tobacco ads because they were selling us something deadly. Fossil fuel advertising is selling a different kind of harm, and cities banning it are finally calling it what it is.
"Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions." Great piece by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social.
🚨 New from @ucs.org: Internal DOE Documents Confirm Climate Report Was Created to Justify Administration Policy
"Facts are supposed to shape policy—not the other way around."
Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines
Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim
kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing
💡Claims that AI can help fix climate have been dismissed as greenwashing in a new report by @ketanjoshi.co @stand.earth @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social
via @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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*Vaxx
Everyone knows its not censorship, they're lying about that because they're liars. Stop having the debate they want, thats how they win! See: Maxx, climate, LGBT, etcetcetc
