1/ @YouTube, it’s time to stop profiting from climate denial. It’s immoral and dangerous.
People who spread misinformation need companies like YouTube who place adverts on climate denial Fake News, often without advertisers’ knowledge.
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People who spread misinformation need companies like YouTube who place adverts on climate denial Fake News, often without advertisers’ knowledge.
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2/ As you can see above, YouTube is placing adverts from @Wix on the YouTube channel of an extremist influencer.
She has teamed up with some of the biggest climate denial think-tanks in the world to try to make climate denialism mainstream.
She has teamed up with some of the biggest climate denial think-tanks in the world to try to make climate denialism mainstream.
3/ She is working with the Heartland Institute, which is funded by Exxon Mobil and a murky network of super-rich conservative donors whose identities are hidden by Donors Trust, which has been described as a “dark money ATM”.
4/ Undercover journalists in Germany revealed how the Heartland Institute included the teenage YouTube influencer as part of their climate change denial PR package.
correctiv.org/en/top-stories…
correctiv.org/en/top-stories…
5/ She is also being promoted by Anthony Watts, who you might remember as founder and editor of the “leading climate change denial blog on the internet”: Watts Up With That.
6/ As it often does, here climate change denial meets the far-right.
The young climate denialist was publically announced on Facebook as a member of Young Alternative for Germany, which has been described as the “youth wing” of the far-right party Alternative for Germany.
The young climate denialist was publically announced on Facebook as a member of Young Alternative for Germany, which has been described as the “youth wing” of the far-right party Alternative for Germany.
7/ She has also spoken to Rebel News, a xenophobic, Islamophobic, antisemitic Fake News site.
RN is famous for one of its most despicable headlines “10 Things I Hate About Jews”, by the founder of the Proud Boys Gavin McInnes.
RN is famous for one of its most despicable headlines “10 Things I Hate About Jews”, by the founder of the Proud Boys Gavin McInnes.
8/ In the aftermath of the antisemitic attack on the Halle synagogue, she said:
“The normal German consumer is at the bottom, so to speak. Then the Muslims come somewhere in between. And the Jew is at the top. That is the ultimate suppression characteristic.”
“The normal German consumer is at the bottom, so to speak. Then the Muslims come somewhere in between. And the Jew is at the top. That is the ultimate suppression characteristic.”
9/ A lot of the research for this thread came from this brilliant collation of reporting. Take a look if you'd like to know more:
desmogblog.com/naomi-seibt
desmogblog.com/naomi-seibt
10/ @fora_space @NortonHelp @TommyHilfiger @Wix, we realise you might not be aware of this, but your ads are currently funding Fake News and climate change denial.
Please blacklist Naomi Seibt’s YouTube channel from your advertising preferences. Thanks!
Please blacklist Naomi Seibt’s YouTube channel from your advertising preferences. Thanks!
@fora_space @Nortonhelp @TommyHilfiger @Wix Hey @UberEats @ubereats_uk @Trading212 @semrush @HomeAway @HomeAwayUK!
YouTube is placing your ads on videos of a far-right climate change denialist who is on the record making antisemitic and Islamophobic statements (see above thread).
Will you be updating your blacklists?
YouTube is placing your ads on videos of a far-right climate change denialist who is on the record making antisemitic and Islamophobic statements (see above thread).
Will you be updating your blacklists?
