Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight
- Written by Timothy Graham, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
In the first week of 2020, hashtag #ArsonEmergency became the focal point of a new online narrative surrounding the bushfire crisis.
The message: the cause is arson, not climate change.
Police and bushfire services (and some journalists) have contradicted this claim.
We studied about 300 Twitter accounts driving the #ArsonEmergency hashtag to...
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