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Information Pollution Is Undermining Climate Progress
Lili Fuhr & Stephanie Hankey warn that platforms built to maximize engagement are suppressing facts and amplifying dangerous falsehoods.
To save both climate progress and democracy, we must confront Big Tech business models that commodify attention, reward outrage, and flood the public sphere with AI-generated slop. BERLIN – The devastation caused by the 2024 flash floods in Valencia, Spain, was so surreal that some images sparked a global debate over their authenticity. In an era when AI technology can produce hyper-realistic fakes, photos showing cars piled haphazardly atop one another in narrow, mud-filled streets seemed almost too shocking to be true.
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