Purpose
This weekly alert compiles some of the most current updates from these campaigns in one place to help your organization hone its capacity to combat disinformation.  Please let me know if you want me to connect you with the leaders of these campaigns. 

Urgency
Over the past year, it has become more evident than ever that our democracy and our ability to protect the environment are under unprecedented attacks. In 2021, 19 states passed 34 laws undermining our democracy through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and dark money influence on elections. A highly-coordinated disinformation campaign around Trump's big lie fuels these attacks. 

Shared Purpose
We face a pivotal moment in the fight to protect our democracy and deliver on our promises to protect and conserve the environment. If we are to succeed, we must continue honing our capacity to combat disinformation. Fortunately, there are some helpful resources and campaigns available to you. 

Common Cause 

The biggest story of the past week is the release of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, 2000 Mules, which posits vast ballot “trafficking” across the country in 2020 to alter the results in favor of Biden. The movie was screened at Mar-a-Lago in a star-studded premiere featuring conservative luminaries like Kyle Rittenhouse, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Mike Lindell. 


Common Cause has a number of ways to get involved:

  1. Report disinfo at reportdisinfo.org. 
  2. Share inoculation and debunking messaging with your network using GIFs from freedomtovote.art.
  3. Sign up for social media monitoring with the Algorithmic Transparency Institute’s Civic Listening Corps at ati.io/signup/.
You can find their weekly report here. 

Triplecheck | Climate Misinformation Tracker 5.3—5.9
Tracking identified approximately 190 tweets with more than 10 retweets,100 Facebook posts with more than 10 engagements and three Telegram posts with more than 50,000 views that contained misinformation or toxic narratives related to the environment from May 03, 2022, through May 09, 2022. More than one million people were exposed to this content on Twitter during the time period reviewed, a decrease from last week's exposure levels. The content had over 12,000 engagements on Facebook, a decrease from last week's exposure levels. The content had over 180,000 views on Telegram.

Here is the full report. More info about Triplecheck can be found here. 
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Dr. Phillip Ellis, EdD
Combined Defense Project
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