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Green Fables: How firms have misled on sustainability

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 32m

Populist opportunists leverage intentionally visceral narratives to draw and embolden followers, establish norms, draw boundaries, and define outgroups.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · Aug 17

We will be discussing how tech and narratives affect systemic risks at the next Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

Adam Maguire @adammaguire.bsky.social · Aug 17

Shein has been hit with two fines in recent weeks - with greenwashing a feature of both.

Fast fashion is one of the worst environmental offenders - but it’s not the only sector to try to fool consumers over its sustainability efforts.

www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Shein has been hit with two fines relating to its misleading sustainability claims, but there's a long history of firms trying to make themselves look more eco-friendly than they actually were, writes...

www.rte.ie

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 20d

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@attorneynora.bsky.social led the 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit talk on how to legislate disinformation harms, with:

@alexandrageese.bsky.social, EU MP
Orlando Silva, Brazilian Congress
Damian Collins, former UK MP
Adam Price, Welsh MS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvbh...

Cambridge Disinformation Summit 2025: Legislation of disinformation interventions panel

Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism: Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators

www.youtube.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 4h

"big lies...reinforce [demagogues'] supporters’ deeply held beliefs, test the loyalty of their close followers, or publicly demonstrate the demagogue’s power. For a big lie to serve these purposes, genuine belief in the lie is not required."

abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publicati...

Why Demagogues Lie Big

abdn.elsevierpure.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 4h

“Mafia State leaders are not reliable partners. You cannot rely on their internal enforcement systems because their enforcement systems have been neutered, compromised, or weaponized.

…prosecution of any corrupt actions must happen…outside of their jurisdiction.”

m.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ZE...

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

For more information about the increased probability of random violence (stochastic terrorism) associated with "political demagoguery," see Amman and Meloy (2024).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In the U.S., legal incitement is generally understood as speech that is intended to incite or produce imminent lawless action, and is likely, in fact, to do so. It is an a old construct extending b...

Cambridge disinformation summit (2026) - Cambridge Judge Business School

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social from CBS News interviews United States District Court Judge Esther Salas to discuss the rhetoric that influences political violence against members of the judiciary.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in 2020, issues a dire warning today:

“Officials from top to bottom” are using rhetoric that puts judges at risk:

www.youtube.com/embed/nJO3QH...

YouTube

www.youtube.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

Call for Papers now open for the

Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April 2026.

Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation.

Hosted with @mctd.bsky.social.

Information: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

Amman and Meloy (2024) define the term "stochastic terrorism" in terms of targeted speech that increases the general probability of violence against an outgroup.

A key element is the messengers' plausible deniability of inciting violence.

doi.org/10.1080/0954...

As a practical matter stochastic terrorism is an interactive process between a public speaker who may be a charismatic leader, one or more amplifying forces such as a media platform, and one or more
ultimate receivers. The originator speaks out publicly and with hostility toward a selected outgroup or individual in order to advance a political or social goal. An unknown receiver takes it in and churns out anger, contempt or disgust, often mirroring the speaker’s hostility and combining it with his own fear and anxiety stoked by the speech; such negative emotions may be intentionally aroused by the speaker to prove the need for his leadership and generate feelings of imminent threat posed by the target of his rhetoric that will personally impact the persecuted receiver. The speaker may overtly declare the target to be a threat, or “joke” about violent solutions to the shared problem represented by the target; violence is never explicitly suggested and plausible deniability remains intact. Social and news mass media outlets wittingly or unwittingly spread and amplify the message and its themes.

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

“Voters aren’t hearing” in part because many are tuned into their parasocial relationships and tuned out of other comms channels that are typically used by old school politicians.

I’ve discussed this with several MPs and MEPs and this will be a topic at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 1d

From Peter Kellner's latest substack:

Of 560 Labour voters present and recent past (switched since '24), *not one* said any of the following when asked about gov's best achievements

Some obv will be conscious of these things, but Labour still has a big problem, he writes: "voters aren’t hearing"

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s in line with his disordered discourse concept.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins, on how disordered discourse is destroying democracy

Incitement to Violence and Stochastic Terrorism: Legal, Academic, and Practical Parameters for Researchers and Investigators

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

“Voters aren’t hearing” in part because many are tuned into their parasocial relationships and tuned out of other comms channels that are typically used by old school politicians.

I’ve discussed this with several MPs and MEPs and this will be a topic at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 1d

From Peter Kellner's latest substack:

Of 560 Labour voters present and recent past (switched since '24), *not one* said any of the following when asked about gov's best achievements

Some obv will be conscious of these things, but Labour still has a big problem, he writes: "voters aren’t hearing"

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

Amman and Meloy (2024) define the term "stochastic terrorism" in terms of targeted speech that increases the general probability of violence against an outgroup.

A key element is the messengers' plausible deniability of inciting violence.

doi.org/10.1080/0954...

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

For more information about the increased probability of random violence (stochastic terrorism) associated with "political demagoguery," see Amman and Meloy (2024).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In the U.S., legal incitement is generally understood as speech that is intended to incite or produce imminent lawless action, and is likely, in fact, to do so. It is an a old construct extending b...

Cambridge disinformation summit (2026) - Cambridge Judge Business School

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social from CBS News interviews United States District Court Judge Esther Salas to discuss the rhetoric that influences political violence against members of the judiciary.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in 2020, issues a dire warning today:

“Officials from top to bottom” are using rhetoric that puts judges at risk:

www.youtube.com/embed/nJO3QH...

YouTube

www.youtube.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

Call for Papers now open for the

Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 April 2026.

Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation.

Hosted with @mctd.bsky.social.

Information: www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Connect with Cambridge Judge! Explore our full calendar of upcoming events, learn about our programmes and connect with world-class speakers.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 1d

Opportunist populists leverage grievance.

youtu.be/yEjtLikxQGs?...

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll discuss AI deepfakes at 6 pm Tuesday at the University of Michigan’s MIDAS lecture. More here.

Deepfakes: How Artificial Intelligence is Powering a New Age of Disinformation – MIDAS

Data & AI in Society Lecture Series

midas.umich.edu

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2d

The emotional exhaustion is intentional.

How opportunist influencers leverage “visceral” emotional narratives to profit from chaos and undermine democratic and accountability infrastructure.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yEjt...

How some disinformation campaigns attempt to undermine democracy

How some disinformation campaigns attempt to undermine democracy

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2d

The emotional exhaustion is intentional.

How opportunist influencers leverage “visceral” emotional narratives to profit from chaos and undermine democratic and accountability infrastructure.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yEjt...

Women didn't love him. His AI girlfriend did

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday, I talked at @jbs.cam.ac.uk #WLC10 about how parasocial relationships can potentially offer a sense of inauthentic “comfort” that may catalyze withdrawal from often-messy human interactions.

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 3d

Martin Escobar hadn't tried an AI companion before xAI released Ani in July. Now, he says he loves his AI girlfriend.

Martin Escobar hadn't tried an AI companion before xAI released Ani in July. Now, he says he loves his AI girlfriend.

www.businessinsider.com

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2d

A primer on Digital Authoritarianism.

Roberts and Oosterom (2024)

"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Digital authoritarianism: a systematic literature review

Authoritarianism is in the ascendancy across the globe, with digital technologies being used by both governments and non-state actors to repress rights and freedoms. Competing terms have emerged to...

Digital authoritarianism: a systematic literature review

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 2d

A primer on Digital Authoritarianism.

Roberts and Oosterom (2024)

"This paper presents the first systematic literature review of digital authoritarianism and related terms."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Authoritarianism is in the ascendancy across the globe, with digital technologies being used by both governments and non-state actors to repress rights and freedoms. Competing terms have emerged to...