A movement originating in Ukraine has been spreading globally to systematically deliver climate disinformation under the guise of climate change awareness. Although its main premise — the world ending in 2036 — may seem fringe, its proponents recently secured an audience with Pope Francis and engaged a registered lobbyist to work on their behalf in the US.
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A movement originating in Ukraine has been spreading globally to systematically deliver climate disinformation under the guise of climate change awareness. Although its main premise — the world ending in 2036 — may seem fringe, its proponents recently secured an audience with Pope Francis and engaged a registered lobbyist to work on their behalf in the US.
SDS MP Andrej Kosi used to live in a building that was officially categorised as a crop storehouse. The living situation of two MPs, who are residing in buildings with reported useful floor areas smaller than a couple public parking spaces, also remains unclear.
More than 42% of the current MPs have not declared to the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption any related companies that the National Assembly is not allowed to do business with. Only 23% of the 88* MPs decided to cooperate at least partially with journalists, while the others remained silent or made excuses, claiming compliance with legal obligations.
Only 19 of the 50 state secretaries provided Oštro with copies of their asset forms. In the second installment of the Asset Detector project, we find that the main issues are in understanding and declaring companies linked to family members.
Oštro has developed a new interactive project Zvezoskop – the “Relationscope”, which allows the public to independently research the links between current ministers, secretaries of state and MPs. Of the 160 elected officials, as many as 40% were new to politics, while others were moving between politics and business.
At least five Slovenian portals which are sources of disinformation or disseminate disinformation earned advertising euros through the Google AdSense platform in 2021 and 2022, Oštro can reveal. Advertisers could block advertising on disinformation portals, but they do not.
In Slovenia, no one except the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption knows what assets high-ranking officials own. They cannot judge whether they are gaining illicitly from holding public office. This is why Oštro has decided to turn the light on for the public and track politicians' assets in the Asset Detector.
Disgraced former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner personally funded an ethnically divisive disinformation campaign in Trinidad and Tobago designed by an election engineering firm to discourage black Trinidadians from voting.
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