Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis | Jason Wilson

In both countries, fake news about arson proliferated while the role of climate change was obscuredDisinformation successfully obscured the real causes of Australia's catastrophic bushfire season. Now the same thing is happening around me, as I report on a disastrous wildfire season in the American west.In both countries, the response to a pandemic is also being complicated by disinformation, as conspiracy theorists refuse isolation, refuse masks, and ready themselves to refuse vaccines. Continue reading...