Trump-aligned congresspeople aren’t spreading wildfire disinformation in a vacuum; American social media giants are enabling a haze of conspiracy theories and misinformation about the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests, and are disguising the fossil fuel industry's role in the crisis, researchers have found.

Trump-aligned congresspeople aren’t spreading wildfire disinformation in a vacuum; American social media giants are enabling a haze of conspiracy theories and misinformation about the wildfires ravaging Canadian forests, and are disguising the fossil fuel industry’s role in the crisis, researchers have found.

Link above is to CAAD’s (Climate Action Against Disinformation) - Briefing: Canadian Wildfire Disinformation June 2025

  • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
    10·
    6 days ago

    It is arson. Digging up and burning accelerating amounts of fossil fuels for decades after we all know about anthropogenic climate change due to the greenhouse effect and fighting against any transition of any kind is arson.