🧵 Disinformation is everywhere, especially because of right-wing politicians.

But all of the tactics at use in the internet age have a history, one that begins with Big Tobacco and continues straight through to climate change.

Can learning the history provide hope for the present? I think so.

This thread is a summary of my latest
"Theory of Change" episode, a discussion with Salon climate change writer, Matthew Rozsa:

https://plus.flux.community/p/todays-disinformation-economy-was