Posted on 12/05/2022 1:29:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Lies about climate change on Twitter escalated to unprecedented levels this year, according to new analyses. The unnerving rise of content that rejects widely accepted climate science — sometimes referred to as climate skepticism or climate denial — piles on top of growing concerns about misinformation and hateful content that’s proliferated since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform.
There have been more tweets and retweets “using climate-sceptic terminology” in 2022 than in any other year since Twitter’s founding in 2006, according to analysis conducted for The Times by City, University of London researchers. That’s 850,000 climate-skeptic tweets or retweets this year compared to 650,000 in 2021 and 220,000 in 2020.
“Climate denial on Twitter was already a dumpster fire; now, it’s as if it had a litre of gas thrown on it.”
Much of the recent rise in climate misinformation can be tied to a single hashtag: “#climatescam.” It makes up around 40 percent of tweets this year containing climate-skeptic language, City, University of London researchers Max Falkenberg and Andrea Baronchelli found. That’s compared to just 2 percent before this year 2022.
“I can understand climate scientists saying this is not a productive place for conversations with each other any more. They’ve become lightening rods for hate speech and death threats, we are seeing a real escalation of threats against them, intended to drive them off the platform,” Jennie King, head of civic action and education at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said to The Guardian.
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Mike Adams
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-05-soros-fact-checker-scheme-implemented-google-youtube.html
At one time it was “ widely accepted” the the Earth was the center of the universe
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Yup. And anyone daring to question it was ridiculed. Or worse.
History is a great teacher if you pay attention in class.
Unfortunately we have all the class dunces in charge. Where did Slow Joe finish in his law class again?
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“this is not a productive place for conversations “
There IS NO conversation about “climate change.” There is non stop propaganda.
Watch the old episodes and tell me he was wrong.
It’s almost scary prophecy.
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