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On Twitter, fossil fuel companies' climate misinformation is subtle – here's what I'm seeing during COP26

  • Written by Jill Hopke, Associate professor, DePaul University
imageYoung activists used 'blah, blah, blah' as their refrain for criticizing governments' and industries' slow actions on climate change.AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali

When oil and gas companies took to Twitter during the first half of the U.N.’s Glasgow climate conference, they often presented themselves as part of the solution to climate change and...

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