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Article | August 29, 2024

Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries

X’s AI chatbot Grok responds with disinformation and toxic content when asked about political elections in a Global Witness investigation

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One football field of tropical forest a day destroyed by farms supplying JBS

Groundbreaking automated "beef-bot" reveals that more than 400 hectares of tropical forest were destroyed last year on meat farms belonging to JBS’ indirect suppliers – equating to over a football field of forest lost every single day in Pará alone, according to new Global Witness analysis.
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New Labour MPs take over £45,000 from oil and gas lobbyists

New Labour MPs take over £45,000 from oil and gas lobbyists

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Crowd Control: Losing Meta’s transparency tool poses a threat to democracy

The closure of Meta’s transparency tool CrowdTangle is the latest move by social media companies to restrict access to data for researchers, journalists and policymakers.
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Latest Investigations

Article | August 29, 2024
Conspiracy and toxicity: X’s AI chatbot Grok shares disinformation in replies to political queries
Article | August 22, 2024
One football field of tropical forest a day destroyed by farms supplying JBS
Article | August 21, 2024
New Labour MPs take over £45,000 from oil and gas lobbyists
Article | August 16, 2024
Oil services group SLB digs deeper in Russia
Campaign | August 05, 2024
TotalEnergies produced enough oil and gas since Paris Agreement to cause half a million heat deaths
Article | August 02, 2024
ESG funds funnel millions into deforestation-risk company
Article | July 31, 2024
No ifs, many bots? Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X, generating over 4 billion views since the UK general election was called
Article | July 29, 2024
COP29 host Azerbaijan failing to report ever-growing methane emissions

Long Read | July 24, 2024

Annual report 2023: Challenging polluters, championing people

Marking three decades of protecting people and planet

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