Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit

Four accounts were supposedly those of female environmental workers from the US who were living in the UAE. Their profile pictures were described as ‘impossibly sultry’. Photograph: @marcowenjones/Twitter

An army of fake social media accounts on Twitter and the blogging site Medium have been promoting and defending the controversial hosting of a UN climate summit by the United Arab Emirates.

The president of the Cop28 climate talks is Sultan Al Jaber, who is also the chief executive of the state oil giant Adnoc, which has major net zero-busting expansion plans.