The Climate Media Barometer: Tracking Climate Misinformation in Flemish Media

This capstone project is motivated by a striking gap in the Flemish media landscape: the absence of any regulatory framework around climate misinformation, and a lack of systematic insight into how climate change is covered and framed across broadcasters. Grounded in inoculation theory, transparency-accountability theory, and framing theory, the team developed a rigorous analytical approach to map the prevalence and nature of climate reporting across both public and commercial channels. Their data analysis surfaces a clear pattern: commercial media tend to skew toward economic framing of climate change, while public broadcasters offer more balanced coverage that incorporates scientific and policy perspectives.