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This is climate one. I'm Greg Dalton spreading climate misinformation is a favorite tool of fossil fuel companies looking to protect their bottom line

Whether they're arguing climate change isn't real. Therefore we should act or

Climate change isn't caused by humans. Therefore we should act or solutions weren't work

Therefore we should act. Companies use advertising and mass media to spread these messages and in some cases

Want to defend their actions as protected free speech

This idea that you know if it's something that connects to policy. I want to see

Then it doesn't have to play by the same rules

But we can counter these false arguments through critical thinking and education if we want a

Public who are resilient against misinformation. We need to build up their ability to spot these types of policies

Fossil fuel corporations have spent decades casting doubt in public about climate facts that their own

Scientists validated in company research. These tactics have included a concerted effort to recast political speech

Band and regulated in some context as protected free speech giving corporations more leeway and broadcasting their messages

This week's episode is a special collaboration with Amy Westerville an award-winning journalist and creator of the podcast drilled

She brings us the backstory of the free speech argument fossil fuel companies are now using to support their efforts to spread climate misinformation

Most people think the debate over corporate free speech in America

Started with the citizens united case in 2010

Mr. Olson

Are you taking the position that there is no difference in the first amendment rights of an individual

a corporation after all is not endowed by its creator with

Inalienable rights

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