ScienceCommunicator<p>How a false <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetZero</span></a> claim became ‘news’: the right-wing disinformation loop <a href="https://bylines.cymru/politics-and-society/right-wing-disinformation-loop/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bylines.cymru/politics-and-soc</span><span class="invisible">iety/right-wing-disinformation-loop/</span></a></p><p>"_ _ lots of people on the social media platform X suddenly became experts in electricity infrastructure, substations, and transformers."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CognitiveBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CognitiveBias</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dishonesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dishonesty</span></a></p>