Fellowship for Countering Disinformation

In 2025, CAAD partnered with Roots to launch a new six-month Fellowship for Countering Disinformation. The fellowship brought together eight community organisers from Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uganda to investigate how climate disinformation operates on the ground and how communities are fighting back.

In Argentina’s San Matias Gulf, fellow Fabricio’s work is already changing what is possible. His investigation into how local media and paid ads are used to sell fossil fuel expansion caught the attention of investigative outlet Agencia Tierra Viva and the office of Congresswoman Vilma Ripoli. Those findings have now helped shape a new draft law to regulate environmental disinformation in Argentina’s National Congress. The bill’s introduction section relies on Fabricio’s analysis, uses CAAD’s definition of climate disinformation and connects the proposal to international standards including the Escazú Agreement, the IPCC, the Paris Agreement, and UNESCO’s information-integrity framework.

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