Jake Dubbins
@jakedubbins.bsky.social
Working at the intersection of advertising, information integrity, climate and human rights. Media Bounty, ACT Climate Labs and Conscious Advertising Network.
“There is now increasing recognition that we will not be able to achieve internationally agreed climate goals unless we address behaviours in information spaces that are being harnessed to undermine climate action.” Charlotte Scaddan of the United Nations
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The Climate Of Misinformation: Why Business Must Now Defend The Truth
How climate disinformation has evolved into a strategic risk, and why defending truth is now essential for business resilience, ESG credibility, and global cooperation.
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July 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“There is now increasing recognition that we will not be able to achieve internationally agreed climate goals unless we address behaviours in information spaces that are being harnessed to undermine climate action.” Charlotte Scaddan of the United Nations
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The price of eggs just about to go through the roof…
RFK Jr. has suggested allowing the H5N1 virus to spread on poultry farms, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article)
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The price of eggs just about to go through the roof…
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Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
Amnesty International describes legislation as ‘full-frontal attack’ on country’s LGBTQ+ community
MPs in Hungary have voted to ban Pride events and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them, in…
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March 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hungary bans Pride events and plans to use facial recognition to target attenders
If this proves to be arson then this is awful. Setting cars on fire is putting people in danger. People can protest or choose not to buy a Tesla but obviously this crosses a line.
WATCH: Cars set on fire at Tesla in Las Vegas, "resist" painted on the building. FBI investigating
March 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If this proves to be arson then this is awful. Setting cars on fire is putting people in danger. People can protest or choose not to buy a Tesla but obviously this crosses a line.
This is predictably disappointing. Is this a mandate to bake bias into AI?
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US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on ‘inclusive’ AI
Confirmation of snub comes after JD Vance criticises Europe’s ‘excessive regulation’ of technology
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February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is predictably disappointing. Is this a mandate to bake bias into AI?
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A total failure of the advertising system. No transparency. Advertisers must have a right to understand what they are buying. Great work by the @checkmyads.org team @ariellesgarcia.bsky.social
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Buyers Blame Adtech Opacity for Funding Child Abuse Online
Advertisers whose messages inadvertently appeared on a site known to host child abuse content point their finger at Google, Amazon, and brand safety firms like IAS and DoubleVerify.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
A total failure of the advertising system. No transparency. Advertisers must have a right to understand what they are buying. Great work by the @checkmyads.org team @ariellesgarcia.bsky.social
www.adweek.com/media/ad-buy...
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Cannot wait to hear from Meta, TikTok and Google talking about ‘brand safety’ at the Advertising Association LEAD conference. Are they ‘leading’ or following? I bet there is no time for audience questions. I would have a few…
February 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cannot wait to hear from Meta, TikTok and Google talking about ‘brand safety’ at the Advertising Association LEAD conference. Are they ‘leading’ or following? I bet there is no time for audience questions. I would have a few…
Which companies that rely on ‘natural resources’ will go bust in the next 10 years? Coffee companies? Water? Cereals? Chocolate? Wine?
January 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Which companies that rely on ‘natural resources’ will go bust in the next 10 years? Coffee companies? Water? Cereals? Chocolate? Wine?
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"These are climate change fires…The scientific literature on this is unambiguous.” -Prof. Donald Falk, Univ of Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
'These are climate change fires': As Arizona lends help to LA, experts assess the blame
Most climate scientists are certain that global warming has played a critical role in the California wildfires, despite political posturing.
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January 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"These are climate change fires…The scientific literature on this is unambiguous.” -Prof. Donald Falk, Univ of Arizona www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Excellent from @pallavis.bsky.social on the failure to deal properly with climate disinfo designed to delay climate action.
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Why countering climate misinformation must be a priority - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
Discussing the open letter on curbing disinformation published during the COP29 conference, Pallavi Sethi argues governments have a key role to play in creating conditions that mitigate the impacts of...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Excellent from @pallavis.bsky.social on the failure to deal properly with climate disinfo designed to delay climate action.
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This is going to be the case everywhere in the world susceptible to extreme weather caused by climate change. It is just so obvious that insurers will stop insuring, otherwise they will go bust.
Here in Florida we have a housing crisis of our own - developers are building affordable homes all around, but many are sitting empty because people can't afford the necessary home insurance.
December 2, 2024 at 10:30 PM
This is going to be the case everywhere in the world susceptible to extreme weather caused by climate change. It is just so obvious that insurers will stop insuring, otherwise they will go bust.
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🚨New from The Guardian: "Climate crisis can’t be ignored, yet UK voters are being pushed by inaction towards a party that denies its existence" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
People are angry about the floods – but turning to Reform endangers us all
The climate crisis can’t be ignored, yet UK voters are being pushed by inaction towards a party that denies its existence
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December 2, 2024 at 9:51 AM
🚨New from The Guardian: "Climate crisis can’t be ignored, yet UK voters are being pushed by inaction towards a party that denies its existence" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Coverage of the disturbing new research from our tech accountability colleagues in Denmark: out of 85 items of prohibited self-harm content, Instagram didn’t moderate a single one. It underscores why we’ve been calling for tougher regulation here www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
Instagram algorithm helps self-harm networks grow, study finds
Research suggests that Meta’s artificial intelligence tool to remove harmful content is not working
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December 2, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Coverage of the disturbing new research from our tech accountability colleagues in Denmark: out of 85 items of prohibited self-harm content, Instagram didn’t moderate a single one. It underscores why we’ve been calling for tougher regulation here www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
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"Many children will not be protected from harmful suicide and self-harm content when regulation comes in because tech companies are failing to enforce their own rules" - @mollyroseorg.bsky.social @andyburrows.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
Do 'much, much more' on age verification, social media apps told
The regulator finds a fifth of children are pretending to be adults, potentially exposing them to harm.
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November 28, 2024 at 10:33 AM
"Many children will not be protected from harmful suicide and self-harm content when regulation comes in because tech companies are failing to enforce their own rules" - @mollyroseorg.bsky.social @andyburrows.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
Traffic from Bluesky to @bostonglobe.com is already 3x that of Threads, and we are seeing 4.5x the conversions to paying digital subscribers.
November 27, 2024 at 6:22 AM
People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change
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“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
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Great starter pack for those in marketing, advertising and measurement from the excellent @alextait.bsky.social
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November 24, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Great starter pack for those in marketing, advertising and measurement from the excellent @alextait.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
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I've created this starter pack for (potentially) interesting accounts to following in marketing, commerce and measurement.
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
Interesting marketing and measurement people
Join the conversation
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November 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
I've created this starter pack for (potentially) interesting accounts to following in marketing, commerce and measurement.
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
I've started small but will add to it over the coming weeks. Also as more people come over to BlueSky.
go.bsky.app/KGUe8Lj
Brazil has a gargantuan job to pick up the pieces from the rubble of this COP.
November 23, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Brazil has a gargantuan job to pick up the pieces from the rubble of this COP.
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To put the just-agreed New Collective Quantified Goal at COP29 in some context...
$300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035"
$2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023
That's EIGHT TIMES larger
$300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035"
$2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023
That's EIGHT TIMES larger
November 23, 2024 at 10:54 PM
To put the just-agreed New Collective Quantified Goal at COP29 in some context...
$300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035"
$2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023
That's EIGHT TIMES larger
$300,000,000,000 - NCQG "by 2035"
$2,440,000,000,000 - global military spending in 2023
That's EIGHT TIMES larger
Finally. But not good enough…
#COP29 - DEAL - the climate finance deal has been gavelled through
No one happy I think (bar Azerbaijan hosts)
More on liveblog 👇
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No one happy I think (bar Azerbaijan hosts)
More on liveblog 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop29: Deal hanging in the balance after new draft texts published
The latest version of the texts has finally been published and now there is growing optimism that a deal may actually be done
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November 23, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Finally. But not good enough…
The lack of progress at COP and delays to climate action can, in a pretty large way, be attributed to a total pollution of our information environment. Brilliant piece by @bberwyn.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
Disinformation Threatens Climate Action, UN Warns - Inside Climate News
Top officials in Baku for COP29 say the spread of false climate narratives undercuts the annual climate talks.
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November 23, 2024 at 6:49 PM
The lack of progress at COP and delays to climate action can, in a pretty large way, be attributed to a total pollution of our information environment. Brilliant piece by @bberwyn.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...