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Marco Silva 🌍
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Marco Silva 🌍
@BBCMarcoSilva
- 🚨 NEW🚨 For the past few weeks, I have been investigating a network of more than 100 Twitter accounts discreetly working together to promote @COP28_UAE and its hosts... 🧵1/19
GIF- 🚨 NEW 🚨 How did this Kenyan farmer become a champion of climate change denial? I have been looking for answers… 🧵
- 🚨New🚨 Conspiracy theories linking "15-minute cities" to sinister ploys to control people may once have been the preserve of fringe groups on social media - but have they now entered the mainstream of British politics?🧵
- 🚨 NEW🧵 I have uncovered a network of nearly 200 *fake* social media accounts operating in Uganda 🇺🇬. It's a complicated story, but it starts with this photo👇
- Is Ghana 🇬🇭 the new king of drill music? It's been so much fun to work on this episode with @Kasujja... Big thanks to @MzOrstin @marinceomario and @KofiJamar for being such legends and - of course - for introducing us to #Asakaa. 🎧🎚️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09… #AfricaDaily
- I've been investigating how good a job @Wikipedia does at explaining climate change. As it turns out, in some of its non-English versions, denial and scepticism are still very much alive.
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaThe @COP28_UAE climate summit will be led by @uaeclimateenvoy Sultan Al Jaber. He is also the head of @ADNOCGroup - one of the world's largest oil and gas companies. bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… 4/19
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaWorth saying: not everyone feels that's the case👇 6/19
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaBut I ran some tests, and it would appear that several of the profile pictures used by these accounts are likely to have been created using AI tools: 3/19
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaOne final point: this is *not* the first time that coordinated online campaigns promoting Emirati interests have been exposed. @caadcoalition and @marcowenjones have done important work on the subject too. 19/19
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaBut researchers at @climateactiontr have recently described the UAE's climate policies as "insufficient"👇 climateactiontracker.org/press/uae-2030… (The UAE 🇦🇪 says it is "fully committed to achieving its ambitious emission targets") 9/19
- I guess the cat's out of the bag... In January, I'll be joining the Oxford Climate Journalism Network🌍 Super excited about it!We are thrilled to present the 100 members of the 5th cohort of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network: 34 men, 65 women and 1 non-binary member from 60 countries. A truly diverse group in terms of gender and geography 🌳 Check out their bios #COP28 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/members-oxford…
