Post #2457662
2026-05-11 00:35 UTC
@drwho@masto.hackers.town @martin_t@mastodon.social
Yes some things sound like conspiracies.
But sometimes we've got the court cases showing there were intentional conspiracies.
Straight up funding for a climate denial group was found as an outstanding debt for a bankrupt coal company.
https://thenarwhal.ca/canadian-climate-denial-group-friends-science-named-creditor-coal-giant-s-bankruptcy-files/
The USA oil companies figured out global warming would happen and threaten catastrophic destruction between 1950 and 1970s.
Instead of doing anything to move off of oil the funded disinformation groups to block the transition off of oil
https://exxonknew.org/
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@drwho@masto.hackers.town 2026-05-11 00:41
@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @martin_t@mastodon.social I know. I nearly took gigs working for two of them about fifteen years back.
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@martin_t@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 00:43
@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @drwho@masto.hackers.town Yup, many are real. What I was trying to say is that to the average person, it doesn't matter what is true, what matters is whether it sounds true.