Cyberstorm..'Petroleum accounts' lead disinformation campaign on climate change
Cyberstorm..'Petroleum accounts' lead disinformation campaign on climate change

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Cyberstorm..'Petroleum accounts' lead disinformation campaign on climate change

A string of hashtags has appeared on social media platforms using disinformation and promoting conspiracy theories about climate change. This analysis of interaction with these hashtags shows that they were mainly promoted by accounts linked to oil interests in Gulf countries. It also showed that this interaction coincided with international and regional events related to the climate issues, and was at odds with the stated positions of these countries, which claim to abide by international climate agreements.