Description

We speak with Mandy Henk and Byron Clark about their recently developed Climate Disinformation Night School, the ways that the information space around climate discourse have developed over time and how different communities might be targeted by groups peddling disinfo.

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This episode’s co-hosts
Kyle, Mandy, Byron

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions
2:57 The Way Climate Change Disinformation Develops
7:04 Why It Doesn’t Matter
10:12 Facing Away from Climate Change
14:08 Different  Frameworks of Thinking
19:47 Understanding and Using Frameworks
22:22 “Flood the Zone With Shit”
24:50 Pushing Back
29:40 Experience Climate Risks
31:50 Farmers and Groundswell
35:33 Astroturfing
37:48 Fitting Into Disinfo Framework
41:48 Socially Disinforming
46:31 Working on Disinfo 
50:58 Information Literacy 
53:41 The Impact on Wider New Zealand
57:50 Overusing the Term Disinfo
1:00:00 Signing Up
1:02:53 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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