Seeing Is Misleading: When Climate Images Need Receipts
A picture lies differently from a sentence. A sentence can be checked against a source. A picture can be old, cropped, staged, reused, mislabeled, emotionally loaded, or paired with a claim it never supported. This is why climate disinformation is annoying in the precise technical sense: it often does not need to fabricate a new fact. It can simply attach a real-looking image to a slippery claim and let the audience do the rest. Very efficient. Very human. Very platform-native. ...