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S1, Ep3 | Weaponizing False Equivalence

Drilled • Season 1 Episode 3

S1, Ep3 | Weaponizing False Equivalence

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As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and propped up "contrarian" scientists to push the narrative of scientific uncertainty and shift how journalists covered the issue.

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