Posted on 01/19/2023 10:39:42 AM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.”
Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the reality of climate change and making misleading claims about efforts to mitigate it.
Such misinformation has flourished on Twitter since it was bought by Elon Musk last year, but the site isn’t the only one promoting content that scientists and environmental advocates say undercuts public support for policies intended to respond to a changing climate.
“What’s happening in the information ecosystem poses a direct threat to action,” said Jennie King, head of climate research and response at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based nonprofit. “It plants those seeds of doubt and makes people think maybe there isn’t scientific consensus.”
The institute is part of a coalition of environmental advocacy groups that on Thursday released a report tracking climate change disinformation in the months before, during and after the U.N. climate summit in November.
The report faulted social media platforms for, among other things, failing to enforce their own policies prohibiting climate change misinformation. It is only the latest to highlight the growing problem of climate misinformation on Twitter.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, allowed nearly 4,000 advertisements on its site — most bought by fossil fuel companies — that dismissed the scientific consensus behind climate change and criticized efforts to respond to it, the researchers found.
In some cases, the ads and the posts cited inflation and economic fears as reasons to oppose climate policies, while ignoring the costs of inaction. Researchers also found that a significant number of the accounts posting false claims about climate change also spread misinformation about U.S. elections, COVID-19 and vaccines.
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CAGW is a scam.
AP going full on assault to Elon- The left are determined to destroy him now that they lost their echo chamber-
Distract them with climate change while you takeaway their Freedom
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:: CAGW is a scam ::
I agree, wholeheartedly.
But, I prefer my rendering and acronym:
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: CACA
The acronym explains the science.
Who determines what “climate change misinformation” is?
The “climate action” crowd has been peddling blatant lies for decades.
If there is still anyone who has not seen the long list here it is:
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
“Climate action” is cult behavior.
The one who pays the fiddler calls the tune.....................
The AP doing what it does best — pushing leftist propaganda.
The climate scam is being exposed on Twitter and fake news is concerned about that
‘Search for the word “climate” on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn’t “climate crisis” or “climate jobs” or even “climate change” but instead “climate scam.”’
Funny what happens when you fire the lefties who are weighting the algorithm and just let the most popular tags actually rise to the top of the search results.
‘“Climate action” is cult behavior.’
And remember, “action” is a euphemism to the left. As in “direct action”, “kinetic action”, etc. So it would seem “climate action” translates to “attacking/killing the climate”.
>>denying the reality of climate change
Let me guess, the ‘science is settled’?
Doesn’t information against a particular political position pose a threat to hat position’s direct action?
That doesn’t make it dis or mis information.
Are the Free World progressives losing the ability of debate?
Does the Left want a world where everything said counter to them is forbidden and even illegal?
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” ― William F. Buckley
Maybe Tucker or Trump needs to say this, but why on earth would anyone trust national or global governance on climate change when they completely f***ed up COVID?
We haven’t investigated where it came from, why, and why we were sold an injurious trash vaccine that was absolutely ineffective.
Correct, because that's what freedom of speech and of the press are supposed to do.
What's the answer to this problem? See my tag line.
““It plants those seeds of doubt and makes people think maybe there isn’t scientific consensus.”
True, the left needs complete control over all speech and thought in order to gaslight everyone, ruin their lives, and make trillions in profit for themselves. Joe Scarborough called the gas stove issue a conspiracy theory the same day Kathy Hochul announced New York would ban the sale of gas furnaces.
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