A Filipino grandma with two million followers is among the hundreds of influencers who have posted content promoting fossil fuel giants.

Let's dive into the new article by Dimitris Dimitriadis, Joey Grostern and Sam Bright 👇🧵

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Yes, fossil fuel giants will stop at nothing to shake off their 'bad guys' image among younger generations, who for some reason just don't like them.🤔

This time, they went for grannies...

Amazing sleuthing once again from Sam Bright & Joey Grostern DeSmog

Nice to see our DeSmog research in the The Washington Post!

Reaching billions of people worldwide, more than 100 influencers have used their platforms to promote fossil fuel companies since 2017.

Our DeSmog research picked up by Maxine Joselow in the @WashingtonPost 🙏👇

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The people continue to misread the mood of the country, I'm sorry to say.

EXC i newspaper

Most voters want utilities to be run by the government, not the private sector - putting pressure on both main parties.

Water, rail and energy networks are top candidates for nationalisation in the eyes of the public.

Poll by Ipsos UK: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

NEW 🟤 Shell used a 'Granfluencer' for its greenwashing efforts

Another DeSmog story with Sam Bright and Dimitris Dimitriadis

desmog.com/2023/08/15/she…

🔴 NEW | How Shell Used a ‘Granfluencer’ to Promote its Brand

A Filipino grandma with two million followers is among the hundreds of influencers who have posted content promoting fossil fuel giants.

desmog.com/2023/08/15/she…

🔴 New from me, for Byline Times:

Conservative MP Receives Donation From Manufacturing Firm Months After Promoting it in Parliament

This could be just the tip of the iceberg of MPs’ promotion of industries and firms that donate to their campaign coffers. bylinetimes.com/2023/08/15/con…

Worth noting that the very same people who assured us we could leave the EU without suffering any serious negative consequences, are now saying exactly the same thing about the ECHR.

Private Eye joining the dots to show how the Sun's 'journalism' *really* works...

Couldn't make it up

'The heat pump hard sell is a load of hot air' -

Brought to you by the Daily Mail, feat. none other than Mike Foster, the CEO of an energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers...

Oil and gas giants are making hundreds of millions in profits.

And what are they spending it on?

Influencers... to make it seem like they're not (in their own words) 'the bad guys'.

🔴 New DeSmog story with Dimitris Dimitriadis & Joey Grostern desmog.com/2023/07/27/fos…

Straight out the GB News playbook – launch a very loud attack on any rule or framework that regulates the wealthy and powerful, but very quietly reach for the same safeguards when needs be

“The era of global boiling has arrived”

Exxon did this. Shell did this. TotalEnergies did this. PetroChina did this. Chevron did this. BP did this. Gazprom did this. Coal India did this. Saudi Aramco did this: Just 100 companies caused 71% of man-made global warming emissions

🔴 Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

Some of the world’s biggest polluters are paying social media celebrities and environmentalists to promote their brands to billions of people.
desmog.com/2023/07/27/fos…

this would be a bad thing to happen theguardian.com/environment/20…

Imagine if Kay Burley invited Shell, BP, Exxon execs onto her show and asked them if they've gone too far.

Not to be alarmist but…this is what’s called a six-sigma event, now unfolding in Antarctica.

Otherwise known as a once-in-7.5-million-year event.

Hang onto your hats.

HT Prof. Eliot Jacobson