exxonmobile – Meanderthals https://internetbrothers.org A Hiking Blog Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:59:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 21607891 ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation https://internetbrothers.org/2015/10/25/exxonmobil-targets-journalists-and-activists-after-climate-change-investigation/ https://internetbrothers.org/2015/10/25/exxonmobil-targets-journalists-and-activists-after-climate-change-investigation/#respond Sun, 25 Oct 2015 12:59:10 +0000 http://internetbrothers.org/?p=17445 After an investigation found that ExxonMobil has been funding climate-denying organizations—despite the findings of its own scientists on climate change—the world’s fourth-largest oil company is now going after the journalists who revealed it.

Evidence that ExxonMobil has been deliberately leading a campaign of misinformation about climate change for decades began cropping up after InsideClimate News, a Pulitzer Prize-winning publication, led an investigation into the company.

Shortly after the investigation was released, Exxon released a statement denouncing the reports, saying that the they “wrongly suggest definitive conclusions were reached decades ago by company researchers.”

Exxon also called InsideClimate News an “anti-oil and gas activist organization,” and claimed that that site and the Los Angeles Times, which also reported on the documents, “ignored evidence provided by the company” about climate change research.

Ken Cohen, ExxonMobil’s vice president of public and government affairs queued up a series of tweets and sub-tweets and proceeded to blast them out at InsideClimate, political figures, journalists, and anyone who would listen.

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