It's Not Paranoia,
It's a Pattern
The Climate Hub — Climate Week NYC 2026 special broadcast on W Live
What happens when speaking up makes you a target?
Journalists. Scientists. Whistleblowers. Human rights defenders. CEOs. Lawyers. Democracy activists. Climate advocates. NGO staff. Across different causes and countries, people working for change describe similar experiences: coordinated bot attacks, surveillance, platform censorship, targeted misinformation and discreditation campaigns as well as physical intimidation.
The damage goes beyond the attacks themselves. It is the work left unfinished. The hours spent defending yourself. The hesitation before speaking again. And the silence that follows when people fear that describing what happened will make them sound paranoid. Intimidation does not need to win an argument to succeed. It only needs to make people stop having it.
Join this special Climate Week NYC conversation as we examine these patterns, hear personal experiences and discuss how to respond. How can we document attacks, support those targeted and build communication platforms where people can speak up without being silenced?
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