Understanding & Countering Climate Change Misinformation and Disinformation

Anthony Leiserowitz

Director

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz is the Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a professor at the Yale School of the Environment. He is an internationally recognized expert on public climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy support, and behavior, and the psychological, cultural, and political factors that shape them and conducts research globally, including in the United States, China, India, and Brazil.

Philip Newell

Philip Newell is the communications co-chair of the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition and an Information Integrity Specialist focused on Corporate Climate Propaganda for the Global Strategic Communications Council. Phil has worked on climate disinformation since 2012, which encompassed everything from monitoring deniers in their digital habitats, debunking false narratives pushed through mainstream media, and even helping fact checkers check their facts.

Cristina López

Cristina López G. is a principal analyst at Graphika, where she leads research into AI-harms and examines social media information operations and networks of online influence for the company's ATLAS platform. She is an expert on misinformation related to climate change and renewable energy in Spanish. Before Graphika, Cristina managed Data & Society’s Disinformation Action Lab and was the Deputy Director on Extremism at Media Matters. Cristina holds an undergraduate law degree from Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios (ESEN) and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Born and raised in El Salvador, Cristina is based in Washington, DC.

Sander van der Linden

Dr. Sander van der Linden is a Professor of Social Psychology in Society and the Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is ranked among the top 1% of highly cited social scientists worldwide and has published over 200 research papers. He is the author of Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity (2023).