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John Cook

@johnfocook

A man called Cook. Author of Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change, founder of https://t.co/DrONUqxWuY.

Melbourne, Australia Katılım Şubat 2017
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John Cook
John Cook@johnfocook·
I’m delighted to announce the @crankyuncles game - teaching resilience against misinformation - is now available free on iPhone & iPad! More details about the game at crankyuncle.com/game and you can get the game directly from the App Store via sks.to/crankyiphone
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John Cook@johnfocook·
Want to test how good you are at recognising authors? Fill out this (anonymous) survey, checking authors you recognise but also avoiding checking fake authors (purpose is to measure which authors are too well known or not known at all) q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_ex…
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John Cook@johnfocook·
Have moved to BlueSky and am posting there about critical thinking and my research into misinformation - but popping back to X briefly to post my BlueSky account so find me there! bsky.app/profile/johnfo… (hoping posting this link doesn't get filtered)
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John Cook@johnfocook·
@fredymorz Well, it hasn't happened yet but thanks for the vote of confidence :-)
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John Cook@johnfocook·
@tkaiser_science @Sander_vdLinden Correct. Currently doing an RCT in Australia with control group but our pilots in Uganda/Kenya (paper in revision), Ghana (published), Rwanda (French/Kinyarwandan translations, in draft), Pakistan (Urdu/Roman Urdu translations, pilot underway) are all pre-post field studies.
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John Cook@johnfocook·
Spoke to @StellaLevantesi about AI & climate misinformation: certainly AI is a threat in amplifying misinformation but I also discuss how we're using AI to develop solutions to misinformation desmog.com/2024/09/18/the…
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Mirjam Nanko
Mirjam Nanko@MirjamNanko·
Just published in @GEC_Journal: We investigate how climate contrarians and the fossil fuel industry obstructed US cap-and-trade policy. Disproportionate access to key hearings and FFI lobbying played a major role. Full study: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe… @TravisCoan1
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John Cook
John Cook@johnfocook·
I’m delighted to announce the @crankyuncles game - teaching resilience against misinformation - is now available free on iPhone & iPad! More details about the game at crankyuncle.com/game and you can get the game directly from the App Store via sks.to/crankyiphone
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John Cook@johnfocook·
@rahmstorf I regularly cite your 2004 paper on trend/attribution/impact scepticism given they are the first three categories in our taxonomy of contrarian climate claims
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣@rahmstorf·
“The rapid proliferation of online misinformation on social media platforms outpaces the ability of fact-checkers to debunk false claims. Automated detection of climate change misinformation offers a promising solution.” Yes, given it’s the same old false claims again and again!
John Cook@johnfocook

Just published a paper in @CommsEarth where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks @MarkAndrejevic @liyuanfang @TravisCoan1 nature.com/articles/s4324…

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Scot Bryson
Scot Bryson@scotbryson·
@johnfocook @RobSchneider @RealJamesWoods The thing that this doesn't take into account is the views of each post. How many views on the 15% of misinformation vs the correct information? I'll bet the misinformation it's weighted much higher and viral impact, since it reaffirms peoples desire for status quo.
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John Cook@johnfocook·
@DrShepherd2013 One thing we're trying to do is shine light on the fact that attacks on scientists is such a dominant part of climate misinformation, given a dearth of research into the impacts that has (e.g., breeding distrust in science) and how to counter it - we need to fill that gap.
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John Cook@johnfocook·
@RobSchneider @RealJamesWoods The major take-home from this research is that 40% of climate misinformation tweets are ad hominem attacks & 20% are conspiracy theories. The majority of climate misinformation involves discrediting climate actors & eroding public trust in climate science.
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John Cook@johnfocook·
We also found misinformation spikes instigated by influencers, both contrarian influencers promoting misinformation & convinced influencers who provoked misinformation backlash. Never thought I'd coauthor a climate misinformation paper mentioning @RobSchneider & @RealJamesWoods!
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