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| known_for = [[Political activism]], opposition to [[Climatology|climate science]] and [[Greta Thunberg]]
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|website=[https://www.youtube.com/@SeibtNaomi/videos @SeibtNaomi] on YouTube
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'''Naomi Seibt''' (born 18 August 2000) is a German [[Far-right politics|far-right]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prater |first=Nia |date=2024-12-20 |title=Musk Pauses Torment of GOP to Praise German Extremists |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-praises-afd-germany.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kolodny |first=Lora |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk endorses far-right Alternative for Germany party in upcoming election |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/elon-musk-endorses-far-right-alternative-for-germany-party-in-election.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk endorses far-right German political party, wading deeper into global politics {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/20/media/elon-musk-afd-germany-politics-far-right/index.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Gender and German colonialism: intimacies, accountabilities, intersections |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-003-37899-0 |editor-last=Zhang |editor-first=Chunjie |series=Routledge research in gender and history |location=New York London |editor-last2=Krimmer |editor-first2=Elisabeth}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Hartung |first=Catherine |title=The Kids are Alt-right (and Progressive, Conservative, Radical, etc.): ‘Selective Advocacy’ in Childhood and Youth Studies |date=2023-01-01 |work=Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates |volume=33 |pages=209–225 |editor-last=Wright |editor-first=Katie |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/s1537-46612023012/full/html |access-date=2024-12-30 |series=Sociological Studies of Children and Youth |publisher=Emerald Publishing Limited |doi=10.1108/s1537-46612023012/full/html |isbn=978-1-80117-469-5 |editor2-last=McLeod |editor2-first=Julie}}</ref> political activist. She is best known as a [[climate change denier]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Nadal |first=Lluis |date=2024-11-16 |title=From Denial to the Culture Wars: A Study of Climate Misinformation on YouTube |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2363861 |journal=Environmental Communication |language=en |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=1186–1203 |doi=10.1080/17524032.2024.2363861 |issn=1752-4032}}</ref> and for her opposition to climate activist [[Greta Thunberg]]. Until April 2020, she was employed by the [[Heartland Institute]],<ref name="independent_Cockburn_202002242">{{Cite news|last=Cockburn|first=Harry|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/anti-greta-thunberg-naomi-seibt-girl-climate-change-denial-heartland-institute-afd-a9355236.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/anti-greta-thunberg-naomi-seibt-girl-climate-change-denial-heartland-institute-afd-a9355236.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Far-right groups trying to turn girl into climate-change denying version of Greta Thunberg|date=24 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=28 February 2020|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/world/naomi-seibt-anti-greta-thunberg-climate-change-environment-heartland-institute-1995686|title=How a right-wing think tank turned an unknown YouTuber into the 'anti-Greta'|website=inews.co.uk|date=26 February 2020 |language=en|access-date=26 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=David|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/anti-greta-teen-activist-cpac-conference-climate-sceptic|title='Anti-Greta' teen activist to speak at biggest US conservatives conference|date=25 February 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 February 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="wapo-2019-02-292">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/29/anti-climate-activist-praises-white-nationalist-cpac/|title=Anti-climate activist praises alt-right commentator at CPAC|last1=Eilperin|first1=Juliet|last2=Butler|first2=Desmond|date=29 February 2020|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=4 March 2020|quote=I realized that all of the sudden, I was being shunned for my own political views," she added. "Just for being skeptical, I received a lot of negative backlash.}}</ref> an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] and [[right-wing]] public policy [[think tank]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-seibt-fined-banned-social-m/fact-checkclimate-changeskepticnaomi-seibtwas-notfined-banned-from-social-media-for-her-views-idUSKBN2322PD|title=Fact check: Climate change skeptic Naomi Seibt was not banned from social media for her views and she is appealing a regulator's order to remove two videos|work=Reuters|date=26 May 2020|accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> which marketed her as the "anti-Greta".<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242"/><ref name="theherald_Love_202002272">{{cite news|last=Love|first=Nicola|title=Climate and the rise of the 'anti-Greta'|date=27 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow}}</ref> She has spoken at multiple events organized by [[conservative think tank]]s and has self-identified as a [[libertarian]] and an [[anarcho-capitalist]].<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Buse |first=Uwe |date=11 September 2020 |title=Social-Media-Star Naomi Seibt: Anti-Greta |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/die-anti-greta-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172993208 |access-date=9 May 2021 |newspaper=Der Spiegel |language=de}}</ref>
'''Naomi Seibt''' (born 18 August 2000) is a German [[Far-right politics|far-right]] political activist. She is best known as a [[climate change denier]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Nadal |first=Lluis |date=2024-11-16 |title=From Denial to the Culture Wars: A Study of Climate Misinformation on YouTube |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2363861 |journal=Environmental Communication |language=en |volume=18 |issue=8 |pages=1186–1203 |doi=10.1080/17524032.2024.2363861 |bibcode=2024Ecomm..18.1186D |issn=1752-4032}}</ref> and for her opposition to climate activist [[Greta Thunberg]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Digital international relations: technology, agency, and order |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-032-57132-4 |editor-last=Bjola |editor-first=Corneliu |location=London ; New York |editor-last2=Kornprobst |editor-first2=Markus}}</ref>
Until April 2020, she was employed by the [[Heartland Institute]],<ref name="independent_Cockburn_202002242">{{Cite news|last=Cockburn|first=Harry|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/anti-greta-thunberg-naomi-seibt-girl-climate-change-denial-heartland-institute-afd-a9355236.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/anti-greta-thunberg-naomi-seibt-girl-climate-change-denial-heartland-institute-afd-a9355236.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Far-right groups trying to turn girl into climate-change denying version of Greta Thunberg|date=24 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|access-date=28 February 2020|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/world/naomi-seibt-anti-greta-thunberg-climate-change-environment-heartland-institute-1995686|title=How a right-wing think tank turned an unknown YouTuber into the 'anti-Greta'|website=inews.co.uk|date=26 February 2020 |language=en|access-date=26 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=David|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/anti-greta-teen-activist-cpac-conference-climate-sceptic|title='Anti-Greta' teen activist to speak at biggest US conservatives conference|date=25 February 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 February 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref name="wapo-2019-02-292">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/29/anti-climate-activist-praises-white-nationalist-cpac/|title=Anti-climate activist praises alt-right commentator at CPAC|last1=Eilperin|first1=Juliet|last2=Butler|first2=Desmond|date=29 February 2020|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=4 March 2020|quote=I realized that all of the sudden, I was being shunned for my own political views," she added. "Just for being skeptical, I received a lot of negative backlash.}}</ref> an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] and [[right-wing]] public policy [[think tank]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-seibt-fined-banned-social-m/fact-checkclimate-changeskepticnaomi-seibtwas-notfined-banned-from-social-media-for-her-views-idUSKBN2322PD|title=Fact check: Climate change skeptic Naomi Seibt was not banned from social media for her views and she is appealing a regulator's order to remove two videos|work=Reuters|date=26 May 2020|accessdate=15 June 2020}}</ref> which marketed her as the "anti-Greta".<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242" /><ref name="theherald_Love_202002272">{{cite news|last=Love|first=Nicola|title=Climate and the rise of the 'anti-Greta'|date=27 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow}}</ref> She has spoken at multiple events organized by [[conservative think tank]]s and has self-identified as a [[libertarian]] and an [[anarcho-capitalist]].<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Buse |first=Uwe |date=11 September 2020 |title=Social-Media-Star Naomi Seibt: Anti-Greta |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/die-anti-greta-a-00000000-0002-0001-0000-000172993208 |access-date=9 May 2021 |newspaper=Der Spiegel |language=de}}</ref>


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
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On 28 February 2020, an article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' stated that Seibt was inspired by the Canadian [[alt-right]], [[white nationalist]], and conspiracy theorist [[Stefan Molyneux]] after being introduced to his blogs.<ref name="businessinsider_20200228" /><ref name="theguardian_Kirchgaessner_20200228">{{Cite news|last1=Kirchgaessner|first1=Stephanie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/28/naomi-seibt-anti-greta-activist-white-nationalist-inspiration|title=Naomi Seibt: 'anti-Greta' activist called white nationalist an inspiration|date=28 February 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 February 2020|last2=Holden|first2=Emily|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She has been accused of both [[antisemitism]] and white nationalism due to her support for some on the alt-right. Seibt refused to comment; her mother denied that her daughter supports [[far-right politics]].<ref name="theguardian_Kirchgaessner_20200228" /> In April 2020, Seibt said her formal work with The Heartland Institute had come to an end. She said that it was her decision not to renew a contract, and it was made because the {{ill|Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen|lt=Landesanstalt für Medien NRW|de|Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen}} threatened to delete her YouTube channel on the grounds that she wants to influence German politics for an American think-tank.<ref name="Seibt_20200424">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4JIcB9ztY?t=107 |language=de-DE|access-date=29 April 2020 |work=YouTube |title=Globale Politik - Deutsch oder international? |date=24 April 2020 |author=Naomi Seibt}}</ref>
On 28 February 2020, an article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' stated that Seibt was inspired by the Canadian [[alt-right]], [[white nationalist]], and conspiracy theorist [[Stefan Molyneux]] after being introduced to his blogs.<ref name="businessinsider_20200228" /><ref name="theguardian_Kirchgaessner_20200228">{{Cite news|last1=Kirchgaessner|first1=Stephanie|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/28/naomi-seibt-anti-greta-activist-white-nationalist-inspiration|title=Naomi Seibt: 'anti-Greta' activist called white nationalist an inspiration|date=28 February 2020|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 February 2020|last2=Holden|first2=Emily|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She has been accused of both [[antisemitism]] and white nationalism due to her support for some on the alt-right. Seibt refused to comment; her mother denied that her daughter supports [[far-right politics]].<ref name="theguardian_Kirchgaessner_20200228" /> In April 2020, Seibt said her formal work with The Heartland Institute had come to an end. She said that it was her decision not to renew a contract, and it was made because the {{ill|Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen|lt=Landesanstalt für Medien NRW|de|Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen}} threatened to delete her YouTube channel on the grounds that she wants to influence German politics for an American think-tank.<ref name="Seibt_20200424">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4JIcB9ztY?t=107 |language=de-DE|access-date=29 April 2020 |work=YouTube |title=Globale Politik - Deutsch oder international? |date=24 April 2020 |author=Naomi Seibt}}</ref>

In May 2020, she endorsed [[QAnon]], a far-right conspiracy theory alleging that Donald Trump is fighting a satanic network of paedophiles drawn from liberal elites. Recent analysis shows that Seibt’s Twitter following surged after she repeatedly referenced QAnon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deaton |first=Jeremy |date=2020-09-24 |title=Climate Deniers Are Embracing QAnon |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/climate-change-denial-qanon |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" />


In November 2020, Seibt falsely claimed that [[COVID-19]] had not yet been isolated and the [[PCR testing procedure]] (to detect the presence of the virus) was unreliable; she falsely claimed it was only based on a [[computer model]] of the [[virus genome]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 November 2020|title=Covid-19 und PCR: Naomi Seibt verbreitet irreführende Behauptungen|url=https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/2020/11/05/rechte-youtuberin-verbreitet-irrefuehrende-behauptungen-zu-coronavirus-und-pcr-tests/|access-date=16 September 2021|website=correctiv.org|language=de-DE}}</ref> In October 2021, she claimed in an interview with [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] that young climate activists do not have enough knowledge on climate issues to be public speakers about the issue and that they have been scared into being exploited by those in power.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Horvatovic|first1=Iva|last2=Carlsson|first2=Malin|date=16 October 2021|title="Anti-Greta": Att hungerstrejka är att utpressa politiker|language=sv|work=SVT Nyheter|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/utrikesbyran-do-for-klimatet-anti-greta-att-hungerstrejka-ar-att-utpressa-politiker|access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref>
In November 2020, Seibt falsely claimed that [[COVID-19]] had not yet been isolated and the [[PCR testing procedure]] (to detect the presence of the virus) was unreliable; she falsely claimed it was only based on a [[computer model]] of the [[virus genome]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 November 2020|title=Covid-19 und PCR: Naomi Seibt verbreitet irreführende Behauptungen|url=https://correctiv.org/faktencheck/2020/11/05/rechte-youtuberin-verbreitet-irrefuehrende-behauptungen-zu-coronavirus-und-pcr-tests/|access-date=16 September 2021|website=correctiv.org|language=de-DE}}</ref> In October 2021, she claimed in an interview with [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] that young climate activists do not have enough knowledge on climate issues to be public speakers about the issue and that they have been scared into being exploited by those in power.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Horvatovic|first1=Iva|last2=Carlsson|first2=Malin|date=16 October 2021|title="Anti-Greta": Att hungerstrejka är att utpressa politiker|language=sv|work=SVT Nyheter|url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/utrikesbyran-do-for-klimatet-anti-greta-att-hungerstrejka-ar-att-utpressa-politiker|access-date=31 October 2021}}</ref>


== Public image ==
== Views and public image ==
Seibt has aligned herself as a paid conservative blogger who is being promoted as "Anti-Greta", in response to [[Greta Thunberg]], aligning herself with AfD.<ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252"/><ref name="weltwoche_Zeller_20200228"/><ref>[https://www.wn.de/Muenster/4088460-AfD-Neujahrsempfang-am-7.-Februar-Meuthen-kommt-das-Buendnis-auch Meuthen kommt - das Bündnis auch] auf www.wn.de, retrieved 26 February 2020.</ref> This image was further propagated in 2019 by the [[Heartland Institute]], who compared her to Greta in promotional anti-climate change campaigns.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4fJdjt_vM|title=Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?|date=20 December 2019|work=Heartland Institute|via=YouTube|access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref> Seibt self-identifies as [[libertarian]].<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242"/> The ''[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]'' described Seibt as a "right-wing Youtuber" who "attacks climate science in her videos".<ref name="NZZ_Koch_20200208">{{cite news |first=Carole |last=Koch |title=Die Anti-Greta: Naomi Seibt ist der Jungstar der internationalen Klimaleugnerszene (Anti-Greta: Naomi Seibt is the young star of the international climate denial scene)|newspaper=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] (NZZ) |date=8 February 2020 |access-date=28 February 2020 |url=https://nzzas.nzz.ch/hintergrund/die-anti-greta-naomi-seibt-ist-der-jungstar-der-globalen-klimaleugnerszene-ld.1539361}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' described her as a "so-called 'YouTube influencer" who tells her followers that Thunberg and other activists are whipping up unnecessary hysteria by exaggerating the climate crisis".<ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252"/><ref group="Notes">''The Washington Post'' reported that compared to Greta Thunberg's millions of followers on [[social media]], Seibt had about 50,000 YouTube subscribers as of 23 February 2020; her following as of late May 2020 was about 86,700. See {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYSlCaX1PheCaqxN7u2klw|title=Naomi Seibt|website=YouTube|date=May 2020|access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref>
As of 2024, Seibt has been described as [[Far-right politics|far-right]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prater |first=Nia |date=2024-12-20 |title=Musk Pauses Torment of GOP to Praise German Extremists |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-praises-afd-germany.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kolodny |first=Lora |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk endorses far-right Alternative for Germany party in upcoming election |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/elon-musk-endorses-far-right-alternative-for-germany-party-in-election.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk endorses far-right German political party, wading deeper into global politics {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/20/media/elon-musk-afd-germany-politics-far-right/index.html |access-date=2024-12-30 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Gender and German colonialism: intimacies, accountabilities, intersections |date=2024 |publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-003-37899-0 |editor-last=Zhang |editor-first=Chunjie |series=Routledge research in gender and history |location=New York London |editor-last2=Krimmer |editor-first2=Elisabeth}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Hartung |first=Catherine |title=The Kids are Alt-right (and Progressive, Conservative, Radical, etc.): 'Selective Advocacy' in Childhood and Youth Studies |date=2023-01-01 |work=Childhood, Youth and Activism: Demands for Rights and Justice from Young People and their Advocates |volume=33 |pages=209–225 |editor-last=Wright |editor-first=Katie |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/s1537-46612023012/full/html |access-date=2024-12-30 |series=Sociological Studies of Children and Youth |publisher=Emerald Publishing Limited |doi=10.1108/s1537-46612023012 |isbn=978-1-80117-469-5 |editor2-last=McLeod |editor2-first=Julie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/20563051231186372 |access-date=2025-01-01 |journal=Social Media + Society |date=2023 |language=en |doi=10.1177/20563051231186372 |last1=Jost |first1=Pablo |last2=Dogruel |first2=Leyla |volume=9 |issue=3 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and sometimes as [[extreme-right]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fiedler |first=Maria |date=2024-12-31 |title=(S+) Elon Musk: Politikberater nennt ihn wertvollsten Wahlkampfhelfer für die AfD |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/elon-musk-politikberater-nennt-ihn-wertvollsten-wahlkampfhelfer-fuer-die-afd-a-a32a7541-95ac-4927-9521-08ad32dfc763 |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=WDR |date=2024-12-29 |title=Kritik an Elon Musks Werbung für die AfD: Was treibt den Multimilliardär an? |url=https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/elon-musk-wahlwerbung-afd-welt-100.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www1.wdr.de |language=de}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |title="Klingt das nach Hitler? Ich bitte Sie!" : Musk ruft in Springer-Zeitung zur AfD-Wahl auf – Chefredaktion rechtfertigt kontroversen Beitrag |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/klingt-das-nach-hitler-ich-bitte-sie-elon-musk-ruft-in-springer-zeitung-zur-afd-wahl-auf-12935656.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |issn=1865-2263}}</ref> She is affiliated with,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elon Musk insults German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier – DW – 12/31/2024 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-insults-german-president-frank-walter-steinmeier/a-71191756 |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=dw.com |language=en}}</ref> and openly endorses, the far-right party [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fiedler |first=Maria |date=2024-12-31 |title=(S+) Elon Musk: Politikberater nennt ihn wertvollsten Wahlkampfhelfer für die AfD |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/elon-musk-politikberater-nennt-ihn-wertvollsten-wahlkampfhelfer-fuer-die-afd-a-a32a7541-95ac-4927-9521-08ad32dfc763 |access-date=2025-01-02 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref> In 2020, the ''[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]'' described Seibt as a "right-wing Youtuber" who "attacks climate science in her videos".<ref name="NZZ_Koch_20200208">{{cite news |first=Carole |last=Koch |title=Die Anti-Greta: Naomi Seibt ist der Jungstar der internationalen Klimaleugnerszene (Anti-Greta: Naomi Seibt is the young star of the international climate denial scene)|newspaper=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] (NZZ) |date=8 February 2020 |access-date=28 February 2020 |url=https://nzzas.nzz.ch/hintergrund/die-anti-greta-naomi-seibt-ist-der-jungstar-der-globalen-klimaleugnerszene-ld.1539361}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' described her as a "so-called 'YouTube influencer' who tells her followers that Thunberg and other activists are whipping up unnecessary hysteria by exaggerating the climate crisis".<ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252"/><ref group="Notes">''The Washington Post'' reported that compared to Greta Thunberg's millions of followers on [[social media]], Seibt had about 50,000 YouTube subscribers as of 23 February 2020; her following as of late May 2020 was about 86,700. See {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeYSlCaX1PheCaqxN7u2klw|title=Naomi Seibt|website=YouTube|date=May 2020|access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref> Seibt self-identifies as [[libertarian]].<ref name="insider_Cachero_202002242" />

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Seibt previously aligned herself as a paid conservative blogger and was promoted as "Anti-Greta", in response to [[Greta Thunberg]], aligning herself with AfD.<ref name="theguardian_Smith_202002252"/><ref name="weltwoche_Zeller_20200228"/><ref>[https://www.wn.de/Muenster/4088460-AfD-Neujahrsempfang-am-7.-Februar-Meuthen-kommt-das-Buendnis-auch Meuthen kommt - das Bündnis auch] auf www.wn.de, retrieved 26 February 2020.</ref> This image was further propagated in 2019 by the [[Heartland Institute]], who compared her to Thunberg in promotional anti-climate change campaigns.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq4fJdjt_vM|title=Naomi Seibt vs. Greta Thunberg: Whom Should We Trust?|date=20 December 2019|work=Heartland Institute|via=YouTube|access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref> In a 2020 interview with ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Graham Brookie, the director of the [[Atlantic Council]]'s Digital Forensic Research Lab, commented on Seibt's approach to Thunberg's message on climate, in which she counters Thunberg's "I want you to panic" by saying in a video posted on Heartland's website that "I don't want you to panic. I want you to think". Brookie said in an email: "While it is not outright disinformation, ... it does bear resemblance to a model we use called the 4d's — dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing. The tactic is intended to create an equivalency in spokespeople and message. In this case, it is a false equivalency between a message based in climate science that went viral organically and a message based in climate skepticism trying to catch up using paid promotion."<ref name="WaPo_Butler_20200223"/>


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Seibt's influence was boosted in 2024 by [[Elon Musk]] reposting her videos on X, the social media platform formerly known as [[Twitter]]. Musk re-tweeted a Seibt video calling on [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] leader [[Friedrich Merz]] to ally with the [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]] instead of a German centre-left party like the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|Greens]], with Musk saying "Only the AfD can save Germany."<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk spricht Wahlempfehlung für AfD aus – und verweist auf rechtsextreme Influencerin |url=https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/elon-musk-spricht-wahlempfehlung-fuer-afd-aus-und-verweist-auf-rechte-influencerin-a-e102bed8-c13a-4e2f-a9e3-1a4b37b90506 |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mediengruppe |first=FUNKE |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk empfiehlt die AfD auf X – Zuspruch von Alice Weidel |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article407941273/elon-musk-empfiehlt-die-afd-auf-x-zuspruch-von-alice-weidel.html |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.morgenpost.de |language=de}}</ref> She has also been accused of promoting white nationalist ideas on X by directly engaging with groups such as QAnon, along with related accounts and channels that propagate conspiracy theories.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Sharon |date=2020-08-27 |title=As QAnon Conspiracy Spreads on the Far Right, Climate Science Deniers Jump Aboard |url=https://www.desmog.com/2020/08/27/qanon-conspiracy-naomi-seibt-climate-science-deniers/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=DeSmog |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Deaton |first=Jeremy |date=2020-09-24 |title=Climate Deniers Are Embracing QAnon |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/climate-change-denial-qanon |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref> She has likewise endorsed figures directly associated with white nationalist movements, supporting their views.<ref name="theguardian_Kirchgaessner_20200228" />
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In a 2020 interview with ''[[The Washington Post]]'', Graham Brookie, the director of the [[Atlantic Council]]'s Digital Forensic Research Lab, commented on Seibt's approach to Thunberg's message on climate, in which she counters Thunberg's "I want you to panic" by saying in a video posted on Heartland's website that "I don't want you to panic. I want you to think". Brookie said in an email: "While it is not outright disinformation, ... it does bear resemblance to a model we use called the 4d's — dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing. The tactic is intended to create an equivalency in spokespeople and message. In this case, it is a false equivalency between a message based in climate science that went viral organically and a message based in climate skepticism trying to catch up using paid promotion."<ref name="WaPo_Butler_20200223"/>


She has also been found to spread disinformation on X,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Don't stop me now: the growing disinformation threat against climate change |url=https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/dont-stop-me-now-the-growing-disinformation-threat-against-climate-change/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=EU DisinfoLab |language=en-US}}</ref> including several false claims linked to far-right and white nationalist online groups across multiple platforms, such as Covid-19<ref>{{Cite web |last=Khoo |first=Michael |date=2021-09-27 |title=A Climate of Disinformation: Haters gonna hate, but social media companies force us to listen {{!}} TechPolicy.Press |url=https://www.techpolicy.press/a-climate-of-disinformation-haters-gonna-hate-but-social-media-companies-force-us-to-listen/ |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=Tech Policy Press |language=en}}</ref> and climate-related content.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Doss |first1=Christopher |last2=Mondschein |first2=Jared |last3=Shu |first3=Dule |last4=Wolfson |first4=Tal |last5=Kopecky |first5=Denise |last6=Fitton-Kane |first6=Valerie A. |last7=Bush |first7=Lance |last8=Tucker |first8=Conrad |date=2023-08-18 |title=Deepfakes and scientific knowledge dissemination |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=13429 |doi=10.1038/s41598-023-39944-3 |pmid=37596384 |pmc=10439167 |bibcode=2023NatSR..1313429D |issn=2045-2322}}</ref> A number of academic and journalistic publications have emphasised the links in her ideological beliefs between climate change denialism,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hyman |first=Elliott |date=2020-03-22 |title=The Climate Change Gap has Major Implications for Policy Outcomes |url=https://harvardpolitics.com/climate-change-gap/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Harvard Political Review |language=en-US}}</ref> [[white nationalism]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Naomi Seibt |url=https://www.desmog.com/naomi-seibt/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=DeSmog |language=en-US}}</ref> and culture wars (including Islamophobia). In 2020, she was also found to be promoting disinformation,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Don't stop me now: the growing disinformation threat against climate change |url=https://www.disinfo.eu/publications/dont-stop-me-now-the-growing-disinformation-threat-against-climate-change/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=EU DisinfoLab |language=en-US}}</ref> and acknowledging far-right conspiracy theories propagated by groups related to [[QAnon]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Deaton |first=Jeremy |date=2020-09-24 |title=Climate Deniers Are Embracing QAnon |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/climate-change-denial-qanon |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kelly |first=Sharon |date=2020-08-27 |title=As QAnon Conspiracy Spreads on the Far Right, Climate Science Deniers Jump Aboard |url=https://www.desmog.com/2020/08/27/qanon-conspiracy-naomi-seibt-climate-science-deniers/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=DeSmog |language=en-US}}</ref>
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Seibt's influence was boosted in 2024 by [[Elon Musk]] reposting her videos on X, the social media platform formerly known as [[Twitter]]. Musk re-tweeted a Seibt video calling on [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany|CDU]] leader [[Friedrich Merz]] to ally with the [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]] instead of a German centre-left party like the [[Alliance 90/The Greens|Greens]], with Musk saying "Only the AfD can save Germany."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk spricht Wahlempfehlung für AfD aus – und verweist auf rechtsextreme Influencerin |url=https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/elon-musk-spricht-wahlempfehlung-fuer-afd-aus-und-verweist-auf-rechte-influencerin-a-e102bed8-c13a-4e2f-a9e3-1a4b37b90506 |access-date=2024-12-21 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mediengruppe |first=FUNKE |date=2024-12-20 |title=Elon Musk empfiehlt die AfD auf X – Zuspruch von Alice Weidel |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article407941273/elon-musk-empfiehlt-die-afd-auf-x-zuspruch-von-alice-weidel.html |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=www.morgenpost.de |language=de}}</ref>


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Latest revision as of 04:53, 6 January 2025

Naomi Seibt
Born (2000-08-18) 18 August 2000 (age 24)
Münster, Germany
Occupations
Known forPolitical activism, opposition to climate science and Greta Thunberg
Website@SeibtNaomi on YouTube

Naomi Seibt (born 18 August 2000) is a German far-right political activist. She is best known as a climate change denier[1] and for her opposition to climate activist Greta Thunberg.[2]

Until April 2020, she was employed by the Heartland Institute,[3][4][5][6] an American conservative and right-wing public policy think tank,[7] which marketed her as the "anti-Greta".[8][9] She has spoken at multiple events organized by conservative think tanks and has self-identified as a libertarian and an anarcho-capitalist.[8][10]

Early life

Seibt was born on 18 August 2000 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia.[11] In a 19 February 2020 interview with Die Weltwoche, she stated that she became interested in politics when she started to attend political events with her mother in 2015.[5][12] At the time, she was critical of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Seibt lives in Münster with her sister and their mother, a lawyer who has represented politicians associated with the far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).[5] In September 2017, Seibt graduated from Bischöfliches Gymnasium St. Mauritz, Münster, a Catholic high school. She achieved a first place in physics in local regional competition of the Jugend forscht junior division, called "Students Experiment", and second place in mathematics.[13]

Career

When Seibt was 16, her poem on nationalism, "Sometimes I Keep Silent", was published on David Berger's anti-Islamisation blog Philosophia Perennis,[5] as part of an AfD competition.[14] Since May 2019, she has recorded YouTube videos, using her mobile phone,[12] on topics ranging from migration to feminism to climate change,[15] in which she calls herself a "climate realist".[8][9] On 4 November 2019, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany's largest daily newspapers, spoke of her appearance at the end of the European Institute for Climate and Energy's (Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie [de], EIKE) annual "International Climate and Energy Conference" held in Munich on 2 November, saying, "They have their own Greta. A climate change denier Greta." In her speech, Seibt said that before she started questioning a lot of things, like feminism and "cultural socialism", she too was a "climate alarmist".[16]

On 3 December 2019, Seibt spoke as an invited guest at the Madrid "Climate Reality Forum", a forum organized to rebut the United Nations' climate change warnings, while Greta Thunberg spoke at the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) several miles away.[5][17] In 2019, Germany's AfD had embraced climate change denial as part of their political campaign in Europe, and were therefore also aligned with EIKE.[18] She was the only woman invited to speak at an event that is "traditionally dominated by older men".[19] Seibt has previously spoken at the Heartland Institute,[20] as well as at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, Seibt spoke to about a hundred conservatives.[5][9][21] Seibt has denied allegations that she is a "puppet of the right wing or the climate deniers or the Heartland Institute".[21]

On 28 February 2020, an article in The Guardian stated that Seibt was inspired by the Canadian alt-right, white nationalist, and conspiracy theorist Stefan Molyneux after being introduced to his blogs.[20][22] She has been accused of both antisemitism and white nationalism due to her support for some on the alt-right. Seibt refused to comment; her mother denied that her daughter supports far-right politics.[22] In April 2020, Seibt said her formal work with The Heartland Institute had come to an end. She said that it was her decision not to renew a contract, and it was made because the Landesanstalt für Medien NRW [de] threatened to delete her YouTube channel on the grounds that she wants to influence German politics for an American think-tank.[23]

In May 2020, she endorsed QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory alleging that Donald Trump is fighting a satanic network of paedophiles drawn from liberal elites. Recent analysis shows that Seibt’s Twitter following surged after she repeatedly referenced QAnon.[24][25]

In November 2020, Seibt falsely claimed that COVID-19 had not yet been isolated and the PCR testing procedure (to detect the presence of the virus) was unreliable; she falsely claimed it was only based on a computer model of the virus genome.[26] In October 2021, she claimed in an interview with SVT that young climate activists do not have enough knowledge on climate issues to be public speakers about the issue and that they have been scared into being exploited by those in power.[27]

Views and public image

As of 2024, Seibt has been described as far-right[28][29][30][31][32][33] and sometimes as extreme-right.[34][35][36][37] She is affiliated with,[38] and openly endorses, the far-right party AfD.[39] In 2020, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described Seibt as a "right-wing Youtuber" who "attacks climate science in her videos".[40] The Guardian described her as a "so-called 'YouTube influencer' who tells her followers that Thunberg and other activists are whipping up unnecessary hysteria by exaggerating the climate crisis".[5][Notes 1] Seibt self-identifies as libertarian.[8]

Seibt previously aligned herself as a paid conservative blogger and was promoted as "Anti-Greta", in response to Greta Thunberg, aligning herself with AfD.[5][12][41] This image was further propagated in 2019 by the Heartland Institute, who compared her to Thunberg in promotional anti-climate change campaigns.[42] In a 2020 interview with The Washington Post, Graham Brookie, the director of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, commented on Seibt's approach to Thunberg's message on climate, in which she counters Thunberg's "I want you to panic" by saying in a video posted on Heartland's website that "I don't want you to panic. I want you to think". Brookie said in an email: "While it is not outright disinformation, ... it does bear resemblance to a model we use called the 4d's — dismiss the message, distort the facts, distract the audience, and express dismay at the whole thing. The tactic is intended to create an equivalency in spokespeople and message. In this case, it is a false equivalency between a message based in climate science that went viral organically and a message based in climate skepticism trying to catch up using paid promotion."[15]

Seibt's influence was boosted in 2024 by Elon Musk reposting her videos on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Musk re-tweeted a Seibt video calling on CDU leader Friedrich Merz to ally with the AfD instead of a German centre-left party like the Greens, with Musk saying "Only the AfD can save Germany."[36][43] She has also been accused of promoting white nationalist ideas on X by directly engaging with groups such as QAnon, along with related accounts and channels that propagate conspiracy theories.[44][45] She has likewise endorsed figures directly associated with white nationalist movements, supporting their views.[22]

She has also been found to spread disinformation on X,[46] including several false claims linked to far-right and white nationalist online groups across multiple platforms, such as Covid-19[47] and climate-related content.[48] A number of academic and journalistic publications have emphasised the links in her ideological beliefs between climate change denialism,[49] white nationalism,[50] and culture wars (including Islamophobia). In 2020, she was also found to be promoting disinformation,[51] and acknowledging far-right conspiracy theories propagated by groups related to QAnon.[52][25]

Notes

  1. ^ The Washington Post reported that compared to Greta Thunberg's millions of followers on social media, Seibt had about 50,000 YouTube subscribers as of 23 February 2020; her following as of late May 2020 was about 86,700. See "Naomi Seibt". YouTube. May 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2024.

References

  1. ^ de Nadal, Lluis (16 November 2024). "From Denial to the Culture Wars: A Study of Climate Misinformation on YouTube". Environmental Communication. 18 (8): 1186–1203. Bibcode:2024Ecomm..18.1186D. doi:10.1080/17524032.2024.2363861. ISSN 1752-4032.
  2. ^ Bjola, Corneliu; Kornprobst, Markus, eds. (2024). Digital international relations: technology, agency, and order. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-032-57132-4.
  3. ^ Cockburn, Harry (24 February 2020). "Far-right groups trying to turn girl into climate-change denying version of Greta Thunberg". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  4. ^ "How a right-wing think tank turned an unknown YouTuber into the 'anti-Greta'". inews.co.uk. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
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