Summary
Jarrod Fidden, an Australian entrepreneur living in Ireland behind a conspiracy-themed dating app, now runs Wide Awake Media, a major climate denial account on X (formerly Twitter).
With over 500,000 followers, including high-profile figures, the account spreads anti-climate and conspiracy narratives while monetizing its content.
Experts note the platform’s lax policies under Elon Musk enable such accounts to thrive in echo chambers of disinformation.
Wide Awake Media exemplifies how conspiracists pivot to climate denial for relevance and profit, as climate disinformation continues to grow alongside rising awareness of the climate crisis.
an Australian entrepreneur living in Ireland behind a conspiracy-themed dating app
That’s a mouthful. Also, it would be so ironic for Wide Awake Media to complain about woke stuff.
Some rich asshole?
Yep, some rich asshole.
I bet you he doesn’t have any kids. The article doesn’t seem to mention any unless I missed it.
So Jarrod Fidden is behind the account. But let’s also acknowledge the full influence of Elon Musk in this too. The article hints at that. But Musk has a bigger hand than many acknowledge. It’s not only the lax moderation policies he’s imposed. His shitty, politically-driven, right-wing evangelizing and misinformation has emboldened and drawn in assholes like Fidden and ramped up their misinformation.
It’s really amazing that a guy who thinks it’s his duty to impregnate women constantly doesn’t seem to give a shit about their future.
It’s all consistent with only caring about himself and his ego.
Of course he’s Australian, we gave the world Ruoert “the turd” Murdoch as well.
I would have bet American before Australian.
But other countries have donated assholes and idiots to this crazy cause too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjørn_Lomborg
This is a bit of an aside but… What I find interesting is that people on Lemmy decry x/twitter’s “lax policies” and yet Lemmy has practically zero moderation. There are whole communities calling for the literal death of CEOs or even just people who drive cars.
Which all supports the both-sideism that people here get all pissy over. They just can’t see that they are two sides of a coin. Communities here are just as violent and toxic - they just do it from a liberal rather than conservative pov.
We delete threatening posts, people bitch. We don’t delete threatening posts, people bitch.
For fuck’s sake, can you call get together and decide what we’re supposed to be doing?
