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Disinformation Tracking

Which claims are circulating against NYS solar and storage projects, where they came from, and what answers them.

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Items This Month

31234

Across 10 channels

Active Narratives

162

Tracked with verdicts

Fastest-Growing

+45%45%

Hydrogen fluoride plume

Counties Affected

273

Of 39 opposed counties

Debunk Coverage

69%8%

11 of 16 rebutted

Spread Over TimeMonthly captured items per argument category, aggregated across all monitored channels. The final column matches the current-month category mix.Monthly captured items per argument category, aggregated across all monitored channels. The final column matches the current-month category mix.

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312 items last month · +89% over the window

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Category Mix(312 items)Share of tracked disinformation items by argument category. Matches the dashboard Opposition Tactics Breakdown. Click a category to filter the whole page.Share of tracked disinformation items by argument category. Matches the dashboard Opposition Tactics Breakdown. Click a category to filter the whole page.

312Items this month

16 narratives tracked

Fire / battery safety and health claims are the fastest-growing categories this quarter, up 34 items month over month. Click a slice to filter the catalog.

Where It's Spreading(27 counties)Captured items per county for the selected category. Counties with no tracked items in this category are shown unfilled.Captured items per county for the selected category. Counties with no tracked items in this category are shown unfilled.

  • 36+ items
  • 19–35
  • 1–18
  • None tracked

Highest narrative volume

  1. 1.Saratoga44
  2. 2.Tioga40
  3. 3.Chautauqua31
  4. 4.Steuben25
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Narrative Catalog(16 of 16 narratives · 312 items)Every tracked claim with its verdict, instance count, trend, and origin. Expand a row for the rebuttal summary, or open the dossier for sources, propagation timeline, and counter-messaging.Every tracked claim with its verdict, instance count, trend, and origin. Expand a row for the rebuttal summary, or open the dossier for sources, propagation timeline, and counter-messaging.

  • The single most-repeated claim in NYS hearings. A laminated one-pager with this figure has been entered into the record in 23 towns, always without a citation.

    Originating org
    Citizens for Responsible Energy
    Trend
    steady (+4% MoM)
    Counties
    8 · Saratoga, Orange, Steuben, Chautauqua
    Debunk status
    Rebuttal published

    Spread channels

    Local Facebook groupsTown hearing transcriptsMailers & door hangersLetters to the editor

    Factual rebuttal · 3 cited sources

    No peer-reviewed study of New York sales data finds a 30% effect. The largest US analysis to date — Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's review of 1.8 million home sales near 3,700 solar arrays — finds a 1.5% average effect within one half-mile of utility-scale solar and no measurable effect beyond one mile. The 30% figure traces to a single non-peer-reviewed blog post that mislabeled a hypothetical worst-case appraisal scenario as an observed average.

    Deployed against Wilton Solar Project, Silver Creek Solar, Berkshire Storage Project

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Monitored Channels(10 sources · 312 captures)Channels under active collection. Volume is items captured this month; hostile share is the percentage of captured posts coded as opposed to the project.Channels under active collection. Volume is items captured this month; hostile share is the percentage of captured posts coded as opposed to the project.

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  • Saratoga County Residents Against Industrial SolarLocal Facebook group·6.2K membersDominant narrative30% property value lossHostile share91%Last captureMay 29, 2:20 PM7412
  • Stop Sullivan Solar (public group)Local Facebook group·4.1K membersDominant narrativeHydrogen fluoride plumeHostile share96%Last captureMay 29, 9:05 AM589
  • Tioga County Courier — comment sectionNews comment section·~14K monthly readersDominant narrativeChaumont: fires can't be put outHostile share74%Last captureMay 28, 6:44 PM416
  • Town & planning board hearing transcriptsTown hearing transcripts·38 boards monitoredDominant narrativeORES destroys home ruleHostile share68%Last captureMay 28, 9:10 PM3711
  • Nextdoor — Mid-Hudson towns clusterNextdoor·19 neighborhoodsDominant narrativeUnsellable / unfinanceable homesHostile share63%Last captureMay 29, 11:37 AM3315
  • WGVA 1240 AM — morning call-inLocal radio·~11K listenersDominant narrativePanels leach lead into wellsHostile share82%Last captureMay 28, 8:15 AM264
  • Chautauqua Landowners for Local ControlLocal Facebook group·2.8K membersDominant narrativePrime farmland destroyedHostile share88%Last captureMay 27, 4:02 PM213
  • Dunkirk Observer — comment sectionNews comment section·~9K monthly readersDominant narrativePanels can't be recycledHostile share59%Last captureMay 27, 12:48 PM142
  • “Rural New York Report” podcast & clipsYouTube / podcasts·~7.5K per episodeDominant narrativeForeign panels as security threatHostile share93%Last captureMay 26, 7:30 PM53
  • Letters to the editor — 6 regional weekliesLetters to the editor·6 outletsDominant narrativeIndustrialization of rural areasHostile share71%Last captureMay 24, 10:00 AM31

Recently Captured Items(16 of 16)Verbatim excerpts from monitored channels, matched to a tracked narrative by the argument classifier.Verbatim excerpts from monitored channels, matched to a tracked narrative by the argument classifier.

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  • “My realtor told me straight out — the day that array is approved my place is worth thirty percent less. That's not opinion, that's documented.”Saratoga County Residents Against Industrial SolarFacebook groupSaratoga Co.·19h agoMatched: 30% property value loss
  • “Draw a two-mile circle around those containers and you have drawn the fluoride zone. The elementary school is inside it.”Stop Sullivan Solar (public group)Facebook groupTioga Co.·1d agoMatched: Hydrogen fluoride plume
  • “I called two lenders. Neither would say yes to a mortgage next to a solar field. Nobody is going to buy your house.”Nextdoor — Town of WiltonNextdoorSaratoga Co.·21h agoMatched: Unsellable / unfinanceable homes
  • “Chaumont burned for three days and they just stood there and watched it. That is what they are asking us to accept a half mile from the hamlet.”Tioga County Courier — comment sectionNews commentsTioga Co.·2d agoMatched: Chaumont: fires can't be put out
  • “This board answers to the people in this room, not to ORES. Albany does not get to write our zoning code for us.”Town of Hanover town board, public commentHearing transcriptChautauqua Co.·2d agoMatched: ORES destroys home rule
  • “Every one of those panels has lead in it. First hard hail we get, it's in the water table and it's in my grandkids' garden.”WGVA 1240 AM — morning call-inLocal radioYates Co.·2d agoMatched: Panels leach lead into wells
  • “That's some of the best ground in the Finger Lakes and once you pound steel into it, it is finished. It does not come back.”Chautauqua Landowners for Local ControlFacebook groupChautauqua Co.·3d agoMatched: Prime farmland destroyed
  • “In twenty-five years there is no recycling for these. They come off the racks and they go straight into our landfill as hazardous waste.”Dunkirk Observer — comment sectionNews commentsChautauqua Co.·3d agoMatched: Panels can't be recycled
  • “We are twenty-two volunteers with one tanker. If that thing goes into runaway we are not fighting it, we are evacuating and watching.”Berkshire planning board, public commentHearing transcriptTioga Co.·4d agoMatched: Volunteer departments unequipped
  • “The inverters are Chinese. That means Beijing has a switch on our grid and this board is about to vote for it.”“Rural New York Report” podcast, ep. 141Podcast clipMadison Co.·4d agoMatched: Foreign panels as security threat
  • “Call it what it is. This is a heavy industrial plant and it belongs in an industrial park, not across from a dairy farm.”Letters to the editor — Steuben CourierLetter to the editorSteuben Co.·6d agoMatched: Industrialization of rural areas
  • “I get hit with that glare coming east on Route 20 every morning already. Add forty acres of it and somebody dies on that road.”Orange County planning board, public commentHearing transcriptOrange Co.·7d agoMatched: Glare hazard to drivers & pilots
  • “Since that substation went in I have not slept a full night. It is the dirty electricity — you can feel it in the house.”Nextdoor — Madison CountyNextdoorMadison Co.·8d agoMatched: Dirty electricity / EMF symptoms
  • “The PILOT means they pay nothing for twenty years and the school levy lands on us. Read the agreement.”Tioga County Courier — comment sectionNews commentsTioga Co.·9d agoMatched: PILOT shifts taxes to residents
  • “They bulldozed a mapped wetland and there hasn't been a bobolink on that field since. Nobody from DEC ever came out.”Protect Our Communities (Orange Co.) pageFacebook groupOrange Co.·10d agoMatched: Wetlands & bird habitat loss
  • “Two miles. That is the evacuation radius for a lithium fire and they have not told a single family in this hamlet.”Nextdoor — Town of BerkshireNextdoorTioga Co.·11d agoMatched: Two-mile evacuation zone
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