The real planet killers

Dear friends, Brazil's far-right president Bolsonaro unleashed massive deforestation in the Amazon and let it burn -- and then blamed organisations like Avaaz for starting the fires! Telling dirty lies like this is exactly how Bolsonaro became President. And it's not just Brazil -- from Trump's America to Brexit Britain, citizens are being bombarded with disinformation on social media to boost support for reckless policies that threaten the planet. To save our democracies -- and the Earth -- we need to stop this plague of political lying.  And we've found an *AWESOME* way to do just that… A tiny Avaaz investigative team in Europe uncovered disinformation on Facebook that was viewed 3 BILLION times in just a year. We splashed it all over the media, and within days, Facebook took it down! This was just six countries in Europe -- imagine what we'd find in places like Brazil and the US!  If just 40,000 of us donate, we can launch urgent investigations there right away. We'll scale up the team, seek out the worst disinformation, and go big in the media to push Facebook to shut down disinformation networks everywhere.  Our beautiful Earth is on the brink, and can't take any more. We don't have long to save it -- so chip in now and let's go all out to stop the real planet-killers -- the fake news far-right: I'LL DONATE R$14 I'LL DONATE R$21 I'LL DONATE R$35 I'LL DONATE R$53 I'LL DONATE R$88 OTHER AMOUNT Far-right populists know the public would be horrified by their plans to trash our planet to maximise profits -- so they do everything they can to stop the truth getting out. From climate denial to fake campaign groups, political smears to straight up lies -- social media has become a vast shadow world of disinformation aimed at confusing voters.   So before elections in Europe, a small Avaaz team, backed by tens of thousands of volunteers from across our movement, investigated this web of lies -- and uncovered vast networks with billions of views pumping out coordinated disinformation designed to influence the voters. The media went HUGE with the story, and Facebook took them down and publicly thanked us! But it was just the tip of the iceberg. Facebook just shut down 3 billion fake accounts -- that's a troll army almost half the size of humanity! We MUST respond to this threat. If we raise enough now, we can: Scale up our team of investigators to take down the troll networks and train others to detect and report disinformation; Launch urgent investigations all over the world to protect our planet and our democracies;  Pressure social media companies to tackle the problem, and push governments to pass regulations; Power a global advocacy team that produces hard-hitting reports and splashes our findings all over the media to warn the public.  This attack on the truth could be a death sentence for democracy, and with it life on Earth -- so chip in now, and let's fight back, and win, for our children and the amazing plants and animals that depend on us to survive: I'LL DONATE R$14 I'LL DONATE R$21 I'LL DONATE R$35 I'LL DONATE R$53 I'LL DONATE R$88 OTHER AMOUNT The Avaaz community has done so much to protect life in all its forms. We've bought vast swathes of habitat to keep it safe, helped win the Paris climate deal, and stood by indigenous people defending their land. Now we need to do something different -- stand up for the truth, and protect our planet from the lies that could destroy it. With hope, love and determination, Bert, Marigona, Sofia, Spyro, Patricia, Flora and the rest of the Avaaz team More information: Corruption, fake news, and WhatsApp: how Bolsonaro won Brazil (Vox) https://www.vox.com/world/2018/10/29/18025066/bolsonaro-brazil-elections-voters-q-a 'Chaos, chaos, chaos': a journey through Bolsonaro's Amazon inferno (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/09/amazon-fires-brazil-rainforest Conservationists Worry about Amazon's Fate after Bolsonaro's Victory in Brazil (Scientific American) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservationists-worry-about-amazons-fate-after-bolsonaros-victory-in-brazil/ How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon' (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/13/politics/alaska-trump-tongass-forest-weir-wxc/index.html Climate change impacts worse than expected, global report warns (National Geographic) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/ipcc-report-climate-change-impacts-forests-emissions/

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