"... basically, the rapid corporatisation of social media companies was driven by industry's fear of the ... early, freeform internet ... that they were just like;
'... we have lost control of the story. If there's just this giant, open public messaging machine, where people are just sharing stories and ideas willy-nilly, we don't get to control it!'.
I mean, that is the origin story of the social media industry as we know it."
#AmyWestervelt, 2021
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-amy-westervelt-on-disinformation
The award-winning journalist discusses her new project, Rigged, which uses original documents to expose the long, detailed, and horrifying history of corporate disinformation in the US.
"Republicans [in the early 1980s] were still approaching global warming as a science and innovation problem, a business opportunity more than an economic threat. Ed Garvy's tanker project [measuring CO2 levels in the atmosphere and ocean] was still underway at Exxon, the company was still funding climate research, and climate science was continuing at various government agencies too."
#AmyWestervelt, 2018
As the price of oil dipped in the early 1980s, management changed at most oil companies and the industry as a whole became more concerned with preserving its co
How to spot five of the #FossilFuel industry’s biggest #disinformation tactics
#AmyWestervelt and #KylePope have covered #ClimateDisinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/climate-disinformation-explainer
#ClimateCrisis #BigOil
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