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In the first of our three-part series we discuss a fascinating theory of change - can you influence what's published online by talking to directly to those that fund it - the advertisers? The Stop Funding Heat podcast is produced by Stop Funding Heat: www.stopfundingheat.info  Thanks to our guests today! Find the Conscious Advertising Network and their manifestos at https://www.consciousadnetwork.com/ Find CheckMyAds at www.checkmyads.org and become a "Checkmate" at https://checkmyads.org/membership/  References We do our best to reference as many of the conversation points we cover in our interviews. If there’s something missing, please do get in touch at [email protected] Not Sure About That - Is Coral Improving in the Great Barrier Reef? https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/coral-cover-great-barrier-reef-improved-2021-but-doesnt-mean-reef-growing-quickly-contrary-to-daily-wire/  Not Sure About That - No, Electric Vehicles Are Not 7 Times More Expensive Than Petrol Equivalents https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/electric-cars-arent-seven-times-more-expensive-than-gasoline-powered-cars-as-claimed-on-facebook/  Not Sure About That - Patrick Moore’s graph makes no sense https://archive.is/2Jqjr  Fake news travels six times faster than the truth on Twitter - Harvard Study - https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aap9559  Vice asks ad industry to re-think LGBTQ blacklists https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/10/15/vice-asks-industry-rethink-blacklists-lgbtq-and-important-issues-are-avoided  70% of climate safe content in unmonetized - appears in Change The Narrative report via CHEQ Inc and Media Bounty https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I_KDqD4vBylcMz39Rk3107gAhl5IWQk9AY-BnUZTfVE/edit#slide=id.p  The Times - Advertising funding terrorist content (2017) https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/big-brands-fund-terror-knnxfgb98  Google introduces demonetization of climate misinformation content https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/11221321?hl=en  WARC Guide to Conscious Media Investment - Explainer https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/conscious-media-investment-the-moral-and-commercial-imperative/4391  The Sleeping Giants campaign https://twitter.com/slpng_giants 

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just your crazy relative spreading falsehoods online. In part 2 of our 3-part series, Sean and Aggy uncover where climate misinformation comes from - and why is it put out there in the first place? The Stop Funding Heat podcast is produced by Stop Funding Heat: www.stopfundingheat.info  Thanks to our guests today! Find them at https://desmog.com/ and https://influencemap.org/  References  We do our best to reference as many of the conversation points we cover in our interviews. If there’s something missing, please do get in touch at [email protected] For an interesting look at how the tobacco industry’s tactics are mirrored by fossil fuel industries, check out this BBC podcast https://bbc.in/3uYlqDI Climate gate - debunked: https://bit.ly/3oY7SVg 2021’s Counter-COP summit run by Heartland Institute, as reported by Channel 4 https://bit.ly/3sUHtJ7 Brexit climate denier map: https://bit.ly/34K3get Monsanto hiring firms to target journalists and activists: https://bit.ly/3sUHqwV Majority of UK want a net zero referendum - debunked: https://bit.ly/3gV5UQK Climate denier ads paid for by Centre for Brexit Policy: https://bit.ly/3s1MVKE InfluenceMap found 25,000 ads from 25 entities seen over 430 million times in 2021 https://bit.ly/3JDXj1c Ballot Measure 1 to increase fossil fuel taxes in Alaska falls https://bit.ly/3H1KKeH Climate Action Tracker https://climateactiontracker.org/ European Citizens Initiative to ban fossil fuel ads like with tobacco https://banfossilfuelads.org/ Science Museum strikes new deal with fossil fuel company Adani https://bit.ly/3BtZba9 Fossil fuel companies have spent $1 billion on climate brand building in just 4 years https://bit.ly/3v0XbVI “Japan Climate Leaders Partnership” successfully lobbies Japanese government to set more ambitious climate goals https://bit.ly/3oTTo8L Frackfeed is still offline at time of launch https://www.frackfeed.com/  Not Sure About That - Executives from oil companies refuse to pledge not to spend money to oppose efforts to reduce climate change Not Sure About That - Oil companies hearing - will not do anything about their climate misinformation: https://nyti.ms/3LVsLu7 Not Sure About That - “William Shatner did not go to space”: https://bit.ly/3LJA340 Not Sure About That - Concrete can grow: https://bit.ly/3JCBRK9 Not Sure About That - Boris Johnson calls Net Zero by 2050 “heroic” https://bit.ly/3LMbWBJ 

In the final episode of our pilot run, we flip the script as Aggy interviews Sean on his research regarding climate misinformation on Facebook. Then Aggy speaks to Jennie King about the “war room”, where a team of analysts was working round the clock to combat climate misinformation live during COP26.  The Stop Funding Heat podcast is produced by Stop Funding Heat: www.stopfundingheat.info  Thanks to our guests today! Find them at https://www.isdglobal.org/ References On The Back Burner report - building the case around Facebook's spread of climate misinformation: https://bit.ly/33fgcEu  In Denial report - comprehensive report on how much climate misinformation there is on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3HIlA6m  Daily Express removed an article citing Naomi Seibt SFH site: https://bit.ly/2NXVULj Advertisers pulled their money from GB News: https://bit.ly/3vqVrFa Climate change already causing 150,000 deaths annually: https://bit.ly/3spAn02 Why did we look at Facebook? Facebook has 2.91 billion monthly users: https://bit.ly/3hqeJm1 More about Facebook’s Climate Science Center - like feeding someone poison then giving them a brochure about vegetables: http://archive.is/Pfees Facebook Papers leak - information about staff conversations: https://bit.ly/3JZSYFS Facebook allege that data in Stop Funding Heat report is wrong, despite it being their own data: https://bit.ly/35DvGH6 More about the COP26 war room: https://n.pr/3IwnmaE The final report from the war room is still pending, but we will share it out on our social channels as soon as it’s ready! False claim that COP26 was running on diesel: https://reut.rs/36Q5wkY “Grey speech” of delayism is becoming more common in climate misinformation culture wars: https://lat.ms/3tjpKei Not Sure About That - I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here to be held in Wales to combat climate change: https://bbc.in/3HutBdB Not Sure About That - Ant and Dec poke fun at Downing Street Christmas party: https://bit.ly/3prjrV7

Join Aggy and Sean and a rotating set of guests as they explore the ins and outs of climate misinformation - what on earth is it, who's putting it out there, and what can we do about it?