Pallavi Sethi

Pallavi Sethi serves as a Policy Fellow (Climate Change Misinformation) at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, part of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She develops and executes projects to understand the causes and consequences of climate misinformation in the UK, with a focus on regulatory strategies and platform governance solutions.

She holds a MA in Media in Development from SOAS University of London. Previously, she led Meta's third-party fact-checking program at Logically Facts, where she identified emerging mis-and disinformation narratives across public health, environmental policies, and conflict zones while balancing safety, transparency, and free speech considerations.

Her research centers on climate change misinformation dynamics, regulatory responses to online falsehoods, platform governance frameworks, and the tension between transparency and free speech in content moderation. She investigates how political actors and media outlets spread climate denial narratives, particularly examining far-right parties' obstruction of climate policies and fossil fuel propaganda in mainstream media.

Analysis of her 2024-2025 publications reveals consistent focus on political dimensions of climate misinformation, including European far-right obstruction tactics, Meta's content moderation failures, and the Daily Mail's systematic fossil fuel propaganda. Her work demonstrates how climate denial manifests through strategic misinformation campaigns that acknowledge climate change while undermining emission reduction efforts, threatening democratic processes and climate governance.