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Climate misinformation ‘rocket boosters’ on Musk’s Twitter
AP ^ | January 19, 2023 | By DAVID KLEPPER

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Outdoors; Science; Weather
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To: qwerty1234

“denying the reality of climate change” -
No, sane people are denying that sending trillions of dollars to the Chinese to build solar panels with slave labor while they build 400 new coal power plants is going to lower global temperatures.


21 posted on 01/19/2023 12:02:55 PM PST by brookwood (Government discriminates against you, and if you complain, calls you a racist.)
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To: Red Badger
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.”

Excellent!

What's the problem?

22 posted on 01/19/2023 12:12:47 PM PST by simpson96
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To: Red Badger
"Clicking on the recommendation yields dozens of posts denying the reality of climate change ..."

Right there I would hit them in the mouth. I would say, "you tell another lie, and I will hit you in the mouth again."

These liars have the megaphone. They need to be called liars to their face, and they need to be treated like people who are attempting to subjugate and mislead us with lies.

23 posted on 01/19/2023 12:44:52 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BenLurkin
Who determines what “climate change misinformation” is?

I'm sure you know, but the AP and other leftists think they should control all information. See Tagline.

24 posted on 01/19/2023 2:10:50 PM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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