In The Loop August 2026

Now more than ever, the climate information landscape is flooded with misinformation narratives designed to slow down climate action. From deepfakes to misinformation campaigns, the media, journalists, investigators, citizens, and NGOs need to learn methodologies, tactics, and tools to respond. But how can we win the narrative game by creating engaging, accurate information that supports climate solutions?Tactical Tech asked experts to share their methodologies in a three-day mastercourse on Climate and Political Influence in the Age of Information Crises. The series of recording sessions is now available to watch online:

• Analysing Disinformation: Verification, Deliberation & Accountability - Bellingcat's founder Eliot Higgins explores how to go past outrage, identity and deliberate deception of our current digital information systems to reinforce our ability to make trusted, verified and informed choices. ▶️ Watch here.
• Healthy Incentives: Algorithms, Advertising & Information Integrity - Harriet Kingaby, Co-Chair of the Conscious Advertising Network, focuses on how "The Rage Machine", the toxic combination of algorithms, advertising and platform greed, is providing users with more content that outrages them, and why that is a problem. ▶️ Watch here.
• Questioning Narratives: Systems of Influence and the Art of Framing - Scientist and documentary filmmaker Miguel Pinheiro examines how climate narratives, European regulation, and certification systems reshape the daily realities of the people who actually live and work in the Amazon, all through the lens of cacao. ▶️ Watch here.
• Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystifying Climate Disinformation - Philip Newell, Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition communications co-chair, walks us through the systemic issues that allow disinformation to grow and obstruct climate action. ▶️ Watch here.
• Climate Influence and the Information Ecosystem - Tactical Tech Co-founder Stephanie Hankey exposes how the climate and information crises are unfolding at the same time, and how climate information integrity could help society regain control over the decisions shaping the future we are collectively building. ▶️ Watch here.

This series is part of the “Media Organisations for Stronger Transnational Journalism” (MOST) project run by OBC Transeuropa in collaboration with Le Courrier des Balkans, New Eastern Europe, European Pravda, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), El Orden Mundial, and Tactical Tech.

Haven’t picked up The RePlaybook yet? Tactical Tech created this field guide to the climate and information crisis with insights from 30 experts and offers practical tools to combat climate disinformation and strengthen communications. It is designed for NGOs, journalists, researchers, and policymakers. Request one or multiple copies for yourself or your organisation here.

It feels like AI is everywhere, all the time. It can be confusing and overwhelming, and it can even feel like we don't have any power to make decisions. Nothing far from reality. Tactical Tech co-founder Marek Tuszynski has created three practical guides and resources to ask the uncomfortable questions and regain control:

• 💡 Don’t show me your AI. It is rude! — A curated set of resources for looking beyond the hype around generative AI and asking harder questions about the technology, companies, and politics behind it.
• 💡 Choosing digital tools in the age of AI — A practical framework for choosing digital tools more deliberately, considering not just functionality but also privacy, politics, labour, environmental costs, dependencies and resilience.
• 💡 Regulate me, please... — An examination of how Big Tech draws on established corporate influence tactics while using data, attention and AI to expand its political and societal power.

Are you working on a story unveiling the ugly truth about AI? As part of the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI), Free Press Unlimited is supporting a new round of cross-border investigations into AI's impact on society. Four journalist teams will receive grants to investigate questions including who holds power over AI, how to hold AI companies accountable, their environmental footprint, and AI's effects on human rights. Find out more.

Get ready for the BREAKWATER Journalism Festival! Fundacja Reporterów is hosting this brand-new journalism festival, bringing together reporters from the Nordics and the Baltics to find common ground and build cross-border investigative networks. Sessions will cover everything from open-source satellite intelligence to OnlyFans and documentary filmmaking. Tactical Tech will be there! More information.

Are you a teacher, school leader, or decision-maker in Romania, Moldova, and the diaspora, interested in learning more about how technologies work? Join this event organised by our partners, Asociația Techsoup Romania, to learn more about critical and creative thinking, digital citizenship, AI literacy, and computational thinking. On September 1 at 3 PM CET, Tactical Tech Co-founder Marek Tuszynski will deliver the keynote "Who Decides What Technology We Use, and How Much? A Call to Collective Action" at the event. Find out more and register.

It is time for young people to reshape the digital world they want to live in. On September 4 at 15:50 CET, Tactical Tech Senior Manager for Creative Projects and Partnerships Ana Maria Salinas will be speaking at RISE, a global digital festival powered by Choose Love. In the "𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘭", Ana will present Tactical Tech's projects focused on young people, exploring how to empower teens to ask difficult questions, get informed, and make decisions. Participation is free; registration is required here.

The PRISMA European Network has launched the European Digital Citizenship Education Week 2026 (#EDCEWeek26), running 14–20 September. The campaign focuses on digital rights, privacy and security, critical thinking, and inclusion. Register your activity, whether a workshop, school debate or online webinar, and it will feed into an official impact report for EU institutions and the Council of Europe. Learn more about the event here: <https://edceweek.prisma-network.eu/>