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Marco Silva š
@BBCMarcoSilva
Senior journalist with #BBCVerify, reporting on climate change mis- and disinformation. @BBCNews š
- šØ NEWšØ 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... š§µ1/19
GIF- šØ NEW šØ How did this Kenyan farmer become a champion of climate change denial? I have been looking for answersā¦ š§µ
- šØNewšØ 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?š§µ
- šØ NEWš§µ I have uncovered a network of nearly 200 *fake* social media accounts operating in Uganda šŗš¬. It's a complicated story, but it starts with this photoš
- Is Ghana š¬š 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. š§šļø bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ā¦ #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-eā¦ 4/19
- Replying to @BBCMarcoSilvaWorth saying: not everyone feels that's the caseš 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"š climateactiontracker.org/press/uae-2030ā¦ (The UAE š¦šŖ 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 Networkš 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 š³ Check out their bios #COP28 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/members-oxfordā¦
