Conspiracy theorists have turned from COVID to climate. Conspiratorial influencers above all “chase clout” and are pivoting to posting about the climate and farmers’ protests as COVID-19 becomes less interesting to their audience

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1. We tracked nearly 4,000 conspiracist-leaning Telegram channels and groups across more than 20 European languages – here’s what we found.

   Many of the groups behind these narratives previously peddled COVID-19 conspiracy theories, and are switching to climate issues as radical right parties increasingly focus on environmental policy. Over the course of a five-month investigation, we worked with experts at Prose Intelligence research agency to understand how climate denialism is evolving.