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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 27, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[get ready]<br>
<b>‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate
study</b><br>
More heatwaves even worse than those seen recently in north-west of
America forecast in research<br>
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The study also showed that record-shattering events could come in
sharp bursts, rather than gradually becoming more frequent. “That is
really concerning,” Fischer said: “Planning for heatwaves that get
0.1C more intense every two or three years would still be very
worrying, but it would be much easier to prepare for.”<br>
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Prof Michael Mann, at Pennsylvania State University in the US and
not part of the new research, said: “This study underscores
something that has been apparent in the record weather extremes
we’ve seen this summer: dangerous climate change is here, and it’s
now simply a matter of how dangerous we are willing to let it get.”
Mann’s own research published in May showed a possible doubling of
heat stress in the US by 2100....<br>
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“The good news is that we can prevent the worst case shown in this
study,” she said. If emissions start falling immediately and
rapidly, the study showed, the risk of record-shattering extremes is
cut by about 80%. “With Cop26 looming, we must hope that
policymakers use evidence like this to show the need for global
emissions reductions,” Thompson said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/record-shattering-heat-becoming-much-more-likely-says-climate-study">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/record-shattering-heat-becoming-much-more-likely-says-climate-study</a><br>
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[published in Nature Climate Change]<br>
<b>Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes</b><br>
E. M. Fischer, S. Sippel & R. Knutti <br>
Nature Climate Change July 26, 2021<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing
records by large margins. Such extremes unprecedented in the
observational period often have substantial impacts due to a
tendency to adapt to the highest intensities, and no higher,
experienced during a lifetime. Here, we show models project not
only more intense extremes but also events that break previous
records by much larger margins. These record-shattering extremes,
nearly impossible in the absence of warming, are likely to occur
in the coming decades. We demonstrate that their probability of
occurrence depends on warming rate, rather than global warming
level, and is thus pathway-dependent. In high-emission scenarios,
week-long heat extremes that break records by three or more
standard deviations are two to seven times more probable in
2021–2050 and three to 21 times more probable in 2051–2080,
compared to the last three decades. In 2051–2080, such events are
estimated to occur about every 6–37 years somewhere in the
northern midlatitudes.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9</a><br>
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[small world after all]<br>
<b>Numerous Massachusetts fire departments answer calls about smell
of smoke from western wildfires</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/numerous-massachusetts-fire-departments-answer-calls-about-smell-of-smoke-from-western-wildfires/37134362#">https://www.wcvb.com/article/numerous-massachusetts-fire-departments-answer-calls-about-smell-of-smoke-from-western-wildfires/37134362#</a><br>
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[Great news!]<br>
<b>Action on climate change can provide a shot in the arm for the
global economy, economist says</b><br>
MON, JUL 26 2021<br>
Jonathan Keane<br>
Ramping up investment in policies and technologies to tackle climate
change could play a significant role in the global economy’s
recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.<br>
<br>
In a recent note, Charles Dumas, chief economist at U.K.-based
investment research firm TS Lombard, said that action on climate
change is often criticized as moving too slowly. However, with
governments increasing spending to aid their post-Covid economies,
they may start catching up. <br>
<br>
A key tenet of this is the ever-decreasing cost of electricity per
megawatt hour, according to figures from TS Lombard, with costs of
solar, offshore and onshore wind dropping over the last 10 years,
while gas and coal have remained largely the same.<br>
<br>
“Effectively by 2030 the cost of renewable electricity is going to
be half that of coal and gas sourced electricity,” Dumas told CNBC.<br>
<br>
These trends will bring many of the various pledges to reach net
zero more closely in sight...<br>
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“Governments aren’t making the connections enough and traditionally
treasuries and particularly the ministries of transport are still
dominated by road building lobbies and people who like to build
highways and increase transport rather than people who want to
invest in sustainable alternatives.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/action-on-climate-change-can-boost-global-economy-economist-says.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/action-on-climate-change-can-boost-global-economy-economist-says.html</a><br>
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[I'm dubious, they will likely keep trying]<br>
<b>As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now
It Must.</b><br>
China’s breathtaking economic growth created cities ill-equipped to
face extreme weather. Last week’s dramatic floods showed that much
will have to change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/asia/china-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/asia/china-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[another disinformation battleground]<b><br>
</b><b>As Jeff Bezos stresses climate change, Amazon promotes books
saying it’s fake</b><br>
BY BRIAN CONTRERAS<br>
JULY 26, 2021 <br>
Soon after Jeff Bezos returned from the edge of space, the
billionaire-turned-astronaut delivered a warning to everyone he’d
briefly left behind on Earth.<br>
<br>
“We live on this beautiful planet,” Amazon.com Inc.’s founder — and,
until recently, chief executive — said Tuesday. “When you get up
there and you see it, you see how tiny it is and how fragile it is.”<br>
<br>
“We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and
move it into space,” he added, “and keep Earth as this beautiful gem
of a planet that it is.”<br>
<br>
It’s a familiar sentiment from the world’s richest man, who’s made
environmentalism a central part of his public image. At an Amazon
summit last year, he said people who deny the reality of
human-caused climate change are “not being reasonable.”<br>
<br>
Yet on the e-commerce platform he built, a very different message is
being sold — and getting boosted by the company’s own algorithms.<br>
<br>
New research from the nonprofit investigative group Advance
Democracy has revealed that Amazon.com’s main search function — the
“Sort by: Featured” display option, which is the default way Amazon
filters its enormous catalog of products when customers go looking
for something — gives prominent real estate to books that downplay
or outright deny the reality of climate change.<br>
<br>
Advance Democracy found that 20% of the top 60 search results for
“climate change” returned products containing “misinformation about
climate change,” including three of the first four sponsored results
in the main product list.<br>
<br>
The nonprofit also found advertisements for climate-denialist books
on the product pages of more scientifically sound climate texts. For
instance, the “products related to this item” list underneath Bill
Gates’ “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” included a sponsored link
to “Exploding the Myths of Climate Change: A Denier’s Viewpoint.”
Under Mike Berners-Lee’s “There Is No Planet B” was an ad for
“Climate Miracle: There is no climate crisis, Nature controls
climate.”<br>
The Times independently confirmed that climate denialist books
appear among the top Amazon results for generic searches such as
“climate,” “climate change” and “global warming,” as well as on the
product pages of mainstream climatological texts.<br>
<br>
Advance Democracy said it conducted its research while using a
virtual private network and not logged into an Amazon account, in an
attempt to ensure that the algorithm’s recommendations wouldn’t be
customized based on who was doing the research. Amazon says it
displays sponsored products based on their relevance to a user’s
search.<br>
<br>
Advance Democracy’s findings show “that climate change
misinformation is prevalent, and even being promoted, on e-commerce
sites,” Daniel Jones, the organization’s president, told The Times
in a written statement. “Just this week, Amazon released a press
release ‘encouraging more companies to take action on climate
change,’ while at the same time the platform is profiting [from] and
promoting climate change denialism on its platform.”<br>
<br>
Jones — a former Senate staffer who rose to national prominence for
his investigation of the CIA’s use of torture during the war on
terror, as portrayed by Adam Driver in the 2019 film “The Report” —
added that “the fact that if you search ‘climate’ … climate
misinformation immediately comes up is outrageous.”...<br>
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Amazon and Bezos both have a mixed history when it comes to
environmentalism.<br>
<br>
In February 2020, Bezos committed to spending $10 billion on the
fight against climate change; he has since set 2030 as the deadline
for dispensing all of that money...<br>
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“Algorithms are killing the climate,” said Jamie Henn, the director
of the climate advocacy groups Fossil Free Media and Clean
Creatives.<br>
<br>
“The impact that Amazon has on society isn’t just in its factories
and trucks driving around our neighborhoods,” Henn added. “It’s in
the way that it shapes or warps the way people see the world.”<br>
<br>
For Amazon users, that could mean seeing a version of the world at
odds with what climate scientists — and Jeff Bezos himself — agree
is actually happening.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-07-26/jeff-bezos-climate-change-amazon-promotes-hoax">https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-07-26/jeff-bezos-climate-change-amazon-promotes-hoax</a><br>
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[NPR learns from top climate scientist]<br>
<b>How Climate Change Is Responsible For More Extreme Weather Events
Worldwide</b><br>
July 25, 2021<br>
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday<br>
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:<br>
(6 min read or hear the audio
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2021/07/20210725_wesun_climate_scientist_on_extreme_heat.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1165&d=384&p=10&story=1020342829&dl=1&sc=siteplayer&siteplayer=true&size=6150732&dl=1">https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2021/07/20210725_wesun_climate_scientist_on_extreme_heat.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1165&d=384&p=10&story=1020342829&dl=1&sc=siteplayer&siteplayer=true&size=6150732&dl=1</a>
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Now, there is no reasonable question that climate change is fueling
these events and others around the globe, but there are questions
about the details - why, even though the big picture is clear, the
local effects of a warming planet are occasionally surprising.
Michael Mann is a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at
Penn State University, and the author of "The New Climate War: The
Fight To Take Back Our Planet." We turn to him now because, you
know, he's got a pretty good track record on climate predictions.<br>
<br>
MICHAEL MANN: Well, it's a bit frustrating. As a climate scientist,
the last thing you want to see is your predictions come true. And
unfortunately, you know, despite the fact that decades ago we warned
that if we continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere
through the burning of fossil fuels that we would see not just an
overall warming of the planet, the melting of ice and sea level
rise, but more extreme weather events. And now the signal of climate
change in the weather has emerged from the noise. What that means is
that we can actually see climate change in the individual extreme
weather events that are playing out right now across the northern
hemisphere this summer. This is climate change.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Is this a tipping point? Because what we used to
hear about climate change is that these things will be happening 20
years in the future, 30 years in the future if we don't take the
actions necessary. But what I'm reading from a lot of scientists is
that this has accelerated in a way that is surprising.<br>
<br>
MANN: The warming of the planet is pretty much proceeding as
predicted. What's happening, though, is that some of the impacts are
playing out faster than we expected. And it has to do with the fact
that our models are imperfect. What we're seeing is that some of the
impacts were underestimated because our models, for example, didn't
have all of the critical processes involved in the collapse of ice
sheets, which is so important to sea level rise.<br>
<br>
Another area is extreme weather events. Now, the models capture some
of the basic physics here that's relevant. You warm up the planet,
of course, you're going to get more frequent and intense heat waves.
You also have the potential for larger flooding events because the
warm atmosphere can hold more moisture. But at the same time, that
extra heat can dry out the ground and you get worse droughts.<br>
<br>
But there's something else that's playing out with the events we've
seen this summer, and that has to do with the behavior of the jet
stream, the way the jet stream is slowing down and sort of getting
stuck in place. And so you have these big weather systems that just
lie over the same locations day after day - you know, on the West
Coast, baking the soil, the heat. Back east, we've had a lot of
rainfall because we've been stuck under sort of a low pressure
center. And that is something that the models didn't really pick up
on. They didn't predict that we would see this extra effect.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Who should be held responsible for the events that
we're seeing today? I mean, you've gotten a lot of backlash for your
research and outspoken criticism of corporations who contribute to
high carbon emissions.<br>
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MANN: Well, you know, let's take ExxonMobil. Back in the early
1980's, their own scientists, in an internal document that wasn't
released to the public, actually referred to the consequences of
business as usual, fossil fuel burning as catastrophic. This isn't
Al Gore. This isn't the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This isn't me and my fellow climate scientists. This is ExxonMobil,
the world's largest publicly traded fossil fuel company. And rather
than coming forward with what their own scientists had found and
engaging in a necessary conversation about how to avert these risks,
they doubled down. They ended up getting rid of that research
division, and they spent tens of millions of dollars in a massive
disinformation campaign.<br>
<br>
And so make no mistake about it; the fossil fuel industry bears much
of the blame here. But there's enough blame to go around -
politicians who have refused to rein in the fossil fuel industry,
bad actors who have funded climate change denialism. It's what I
call the inactivists, this community of entities, individuals and
groups that have been waging a war against efforts to contend with
the greatest challenge we face as a civilization - the climate
crisis.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, and now we're seeing pushback about spending
on climate change. Despite all the evidence, this is still
politically toxic.<br>
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MANN: Yeah. We'll have to see what happens with this infrastructure
bill that's being discussed. There are some really important climate
measures in that bill. For example, a clean energy standard that
would require utilities to produce up to 80% of their electricity
from clean sources by 2030. And so there's some good stuff in that
legislation. What remains to be seen will be, you know, if it
survives.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: If things do not get better, what can we expect
next?<br>
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MANN: There are two paths. One is a path of destruction. The other
road is one where we do what's necessary, where we reduce carbon
emissions by a factor two within the next decade, where the
countries of the world come together. But that window is closing. We
need to act now if we are to go down that far better path.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Should we be watching for anything specific, like
jet stream changes or any other indicators that could tell us which
path we're headed on?<br>
<br>
MANN: All eyes right now are on the behavior of the great ice sheets
- the Antarctic ice sheet, the Greenland ice sheet. As goes those
ice sheets, goes sea level rise. And in a worst-case scenario, we're
looking at meters of sea level rise over a timeframe as short as
half a century. The major cities, the coastal cities of the world
will all be threatened. Tens to hundreds of millions of people could
be displaced. So we have to make sure that we do everything we can
to prevent that from happening. And that means we've got to reduce
those carbon emissions dramatically.<br>
<br>
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Michael Mann is the distinguished professor of
atmospheric science at Penn State University. Thank you very much.<br>
<br>
MANN: Thank you. It was a pleasure.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2021/07/25/1020342829/how-climate-change-is-responsible-for-more-extreme-weather-events-worldwide">https://www.npr.org/2021/07/25/1020342829/how-climate-change-is-responsible-for-more-extreme-weather-events-worldwide</a><br>
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[recognizing risk]<br>
<b>First-of-its-kind insurance report confronts climate risk</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2021/07/23/insurance-report-climate-risk/">http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2021/07/23/insurance-report-climate-risk/</a><br>
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[NYTimes -- China calls it their Fifty-Cent Army]<br>
<b>Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming</b><br>
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on
behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of
unreality.<br>
By Max Fisher - - July 25, 2021<br>
In May, several French and German social media influencers received
a strange proposal.<br>
<br>
A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote
messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document
detailed what to say and on which platforms to say it.<br>
<br>
But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation
packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech’s
Covid-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a
London address where there is no evidence any such company exists.<br>
<br>
Some recipients posted screenshots of the offer. Exposed, Fazze
scrubbed its social media accounts. That same week, Brazilian and
Indian influencers posted videos echoing Fazze’s script to hundreds
of thousands of viewers.<br>
<br>
The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security
analysts and American officials say is exploding in scale:
disinformation for hire...<br>
<br>
Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world
of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once
conducted principally by intelligence agencies.<br>
<br>
They sow discord, meddle in elections, seed false narratives and
push viral conspiracies, mostly on social media. And they offer
clients something precious: deniability.<br>
<br>
“Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or
government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham
Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic
Research Lab, calling it “a boom industry.”<br>
<br>
Similar campaigns have been recently found promoting India’s ruling
party, Egyptian foreign policy aims and political figures in Bolivia
and Venezuela.<br>
<br>
Mr. Brookie’s organization tracked one operating amid a mayoral race
in Serra, a small city in Brazil. An ideologically promiscuous
Ukrainian firm boosted several competing political parties...<br>
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A wave of anti-American posts in Iraq, seemingly organic, were
tracked to a public relations company that was separately accused of
faking anti-government sentiment in Israel.<br>
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Most trace to back-alley firms whose legitimate services resemble
those of a bottom-rate marketer or email spammer...<br>
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For-hire disinformation, though only sometimes effective, is growing
more sophisticated as practitioners iterate and learn. Experts say
it is becoming more common in every part of the world, outpacing
operations conducted directly by governments.<br>
<br>
The result is an accelerating rise in polarizing conspiracies, phony
citizen groups and fabricated public sentiment, deteriorating our
shared reality beyond even the depths of recent years.<br>
<br>
The trend emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018,
experts say. Cambridge, a political consulting firm linked to
members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was found
to have harvested data on millions of Facebook users.<br>
<br>
The controversy drew attention to methods common among social media
marketers. Cambridge used its data to target hyper-specific
audiences with tailored messages. It tested what resonated by
tracking likes and shares.<br>
<br>
The episode taught a generation of consultants and opportunists that
there was big money in social media marketing for political causes,
all disguised as organic activity.<br>
<br>
Some newcomers eventually reached the same conclusion as Russian
operatives had in 2016: Disinformation performs especially well on
social platforms.<br>
<br>
At the same time, backlash to Russia’s influence-peddling appeared
to have left governments wary of being caught — while also
demonstrating the power of such operations.<br>
<br>
“There is, unfortunately, a huge market demand for disinformation,”
Mr. Brookie said, “and a lot of places across the ecosystem that are
more than willing to fill that demand.”<br>
<br>
Commercial firms conducted for-hire disinformation in at least 48
countries last year — nearly double from the year before, according
to an Oxford University study. The researchers identified 65
companies offering such services.<br>
<br>
Last summer, Facebook removed a network of Bolivian citizen groups
and journalistic fact-checking organizations. It said the pages,
which had promoted falsehoods supporting the country’s right-wing
government, were fake.<br>
<br>
Stanford University researchers traced the content to CLS
Strategies, a Washington-based communications firm that had
registered as a consultant with the Bolivian government. The firm
had done similar work in Venezuela and Mexico.<br>
<br>
A spokesman referred to the company’s statement last year saying its
regional chief had been placed on leave but disputed Facebook’s
accusation that the work qualified as foreign interference.<br>
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</b><b>
Eroding Reality</b><br>
New technology enables nearly anyone to get involved. Programs batch
generate fake accounts with hard-to-trace profile photos. Instant
metrics help to hone effective messaging. So does access to users’
personal data, which is easily purchased in bulk.<br>
<br>
The campaigns are rarely as sophisticated as those by government
hackers or specialized firms like the Kremlin-backed Internet
Research Agency.<br>
<br>
But they appear to be cheap. In countries that mandate campaign
finance transparency, firms report billing tens of thousands of
dollars for campaigns that also include traditional consulting
services.<br>
<br>
The layer of deniability frees governments to sow disinformation
more aggressively, at home and abroad, than might otherwise be worth
the risk. Some contractors, when caught, have claimed they acted
without their client’s knowledge or only to win future business.<br>
<br>
Platforms have stepped up efforts to root out coordinated
disinformation. Analysts especially credit Facebook, which publishes
detailed reports on campaigns it disrupts.<br>
<br>
Still, some argue that social media companies also play a role in
worsening the threat. Engagement-boosting algorithms and design
elements, research finds, often privilege divisive and
conspiratorial content.<br>
<br>
Political norms have also shifted. A generation of populist leaders,
like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, has risen in part through
social media manipulation. Once in office, many institutionalize
those methods as tools of governance and foreign relations.<br>
<br>
In India, dozens of government-run Twitter accounts have shared
posts from India Vs Disinformation, a website and set of social
media feeds that purport to fact-check news stories on India.<br>
<br>
India Vs Disinformation is, in reality, the product of a Canadian
communications firm called Press Monitor.<br>
<br>
Nearly all the posts seek to discredit or muddy reports unfavorable
to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, including on the
country’s severe Covid-19 toll. An associated site promotes pro-Modi
narratives under the guise of news articles.<br>
<br>
A Digital Forensic Research Lab report investigating the network
called it “an important case study” in the rise of “disinformation
campaigns in democracies.”<br>
<br>
A representative of Press Monitor, who would identify himself only
as Abhay, called the report completely false.<br>
<br>
He specified only that it incorrectly identified his firm as
Canada-based. Asked why the company lists a Toronto address, a
Canadian tax registration and identifies as “part of Toronto’s
thriving tech ecosystem,” or why he had been reached on a Toronto
phone number, he said that he had business in many countries. He did
not respond to an email asking for clarification.<br>
<br>
A LinkedIn profile for Abhay Aggarwal identifies him as the
Toronto-based chief executive of Press Monitor and says that the
company’s services are used by the Indian government.<br>
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</b><b>‘Spamouflage’</b><br>
A set of pro-Beijing operations hint at the field’s capacity for
rapid evolution.<br>
<br>
Since 2019, Graphika, a digital research firm, has tracked a network
it nicknamed “Spamouflage” for its early reliance on spamming social
platforms with content echoing Beijing’s line on geopolitical
issues. Most posts received little or no engagement.<br>
<br>
In recent months, however, the network has developed hundreds of
accounts with elaborate personas. Each has its own profile and
posting history that can seem authentic. They appeared to come from
many different countries and walks of life.<br>
<br>
Graphika traced the accounts back to a Bangladeshi content farm that
created them in bulk and probably sold them to a third party.<br>
<br>
The network pushes strident criticism of Hong Kong democracy
activists and American foreign policy. By coordinating without
seeming to, it created an appearance of organic shifts in public
opinion — and often won attention.<br>
<br>
The accounts were amplified by a major media network in Panama,
prominent politicians in Pakistan and Chile, Chinese-language
YouTube pages, the left-wing British commentator George Galloway and
a number of Chinese diplomatic accounts.<br>
<br>
A separate pro-Beijing network, uncovered by a Taiwanese
investigative outlet called The Reporter, operated hundreds of
Chinese-language websites and social media accounts.<br>
<br>
Disguised as news sites and citizen groups, they promoted Taiwanese
reunification with mainland China and denigrated Hong Kong’s
protesters. The report found links between the pages and a
Malaysia-based start-up that offered web users Singapore dollars to
promote the content.<br>
<br>
But governments may find that outsourcing such shadowy work also
carries risks, Mr. Brookie said. For one, the firms are harder to
control and might veer into undesired messages or tactics...<br>
<br>
For another, firms organized around deceit may be just as likely to
turn those energies toward their clients, bloating budgets and
billing for work that never gets done.<br>
<br>
“The bottom line is that grifters are going to grift online,” he
said.<br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming July
27, 2006</b></font><br>
Climate scientist Michael Mann testifies before the House Committee
on Energy and Commerce regarding his scientific research--and the
transparently partisan efforts by climate-change deniers to
undermine it.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/8e2GlooAPkM">http://youtu.be/8e2GlooAPkM</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?193612-1/Methodo">http://www.c-span.org/video/?193612-1/Methodo</a><br>
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