great news. now let’s see the SP go up!
What happened to Parlor was obscene.
when the BBC Verify “fact” checkers come after you...
30 June 2023: BBC: The climate change-denying TikTok post that won’t go away
By Marco Silva & Maryam Ahmed, BBC Verify
Earlier this year, TikTok vowed to clamp down on climate change denial. But a BBC investigation tracked one video that has been viewed millions of times - and found the company is struggling to stop false climate information from spreading across the platform...
Under new community guidelines unveiled by TikTok last April, content that “undermines well-established scientific consensus” on climate change will not be allowed on the platform.
And yet, the clip depicting Mr Peña is far from an isolated occurrence: the BBC identified 365 different videos in English denying the existence of man-made climate change.
TikTok itself deems climate change denial to be “harmful misinformation”. Using tools available to any TikTok user, we reported those videos to the platform under that category. We then waited for at least a day to find out whether they would be taken down.
The company did not remove almost 95% of the posts we flagged up - videos that, having been watched almost 30 million times, appeared to be attracting significant attention...
The problem is not exclusive to English-speaking TikTok either: BBC Monitoring found dozens of other climate change-denying videos in Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian...
Paul Scully MP, the minister for technology and the digital economy, told the BBC that the government’s proposed Online Safety Bill would guarantee that the responsibility of social media platforms to tackle disinformation was “taken seriously”...
*At the Met Office, Dr McNeall welcomes TikTok’s efforts against misinformation, but he questions whether this is a battle the company can win.
“As a scientist I’m happy to be challenged,” he says.
“Maybe we should focus on promoting good climate science information, rather than just removing the content that we perhaps don’t like.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66023797
*rare moment of truth from the Met Office!
Until they add closed captions I’m out, as I’ve yet to see a Rumble vid with CC.
How does Rumble assure they have access to push data acress “the internet”? Who owns/runs all the node servers?