Recentering health and human stakes of our issues WEBINAR:
Water and climate mis- and disinformation are on the rise, distracting people from the solutions we’re fighting for. How can we cut through the noise, spot misleading narratives, and respond, all while keeping our sanity?
Join us for a roundtable on March 5 at 11am PT/2pm ET to learn how false facts spread, what’s fueling them, and how we can fight back. At this virtual event, experts from Media Matters and Climate Action Against Disinformation will share tools to recognize and counter harmful narratives while staying focused on the long fight for water and climate justice.
Register today!
March 5, 2025 @ 11am PT/2pm ET
We can’t cede narrative ground in this challenging media landscape. Let’s learn together to stay ready and resilient. We hope to see you there!
Meet the speakers
Abbie Richards, Senior Video Producer, Media Matters for America
Abbie Richards is a TikToker and TikTok misinformation researcher. She specializes in understanding how misinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremism spread on TikTok and creates educational content that explains these complex issues to a wider audience. She’s amassed a multi-platform following of over half a million people who are interested in learning about these issues. Abbie is a senior video producer at Media Matters and is a co-founder of EcoTok, an environmental TikTok collective that specializes in social media-based climate communication. For her work as an online educator, Abbie was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 2023 cohort, and the Mozilla Rise25 cohort, and was awarded the WIN WIN Youth Award for 2023.
Phillip Newell, Communications Co-Chair, Climate Action Against Disinformation; Information Integrity Specialist, GSCC
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 international climate communications network, GSCC. Previously, Philip spent over 10 years monitoring, researching, and rebutting climate denial at Climate Nexus, producing a daily intelligence briefing on the opposition to climate action for an audience of policymakers, media, scientists, and advocates.
